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This entry was posted on September 5, 2017, in GQ. Bookmark the permalink.

Published in British GQ, October 2017.

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Kevin EG Perry is a writer for NME, Vice, The Guardian, British GQ and Lonely Planet Traveller.

His work has also been published by Time Out, Shortlist, The Independent, The Telegraph, Easyjet Traveller, Condé Nast Traveller, Crack, The Quietus, The Fader, Mixmag, Dazed & Confused, Loaded, Drowned In Sound, Mojo, Exeunt and others.

He was shortlisted for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Award in 2009. His foreign correspondence has also appeared in New Internationalist as well as on behalf of UNICEF, Oxfam, VSO, the Fairtrade Foundation and the World Health Organisation.

He can be contacted at kevinegperry[at]gmail.com

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A million lifetimes ago I did work experience at @dazed. I remember going in on my first day, all jangling nerves and naivety, and finding a desk near the editors, @rodstanley and @timnoakes. I asked Tim how I could help and the very first thing he said was: 'Oh, there's an interview with Oliver Stone you could do.' I thought: 'Holy shit! This journalism lark is easy. I've only been here two minutes and they already want me to interview Oliver Stone!' It turned out (obviously) that what Tim meant is that he'd interviewed Oliver Stone and he wanted me to transcribe it. Significantly less exciting, but weirdly still exciting enough that I felt an odd sense of pride when I saw the interview in print. I learned a lot from Rod and Tim. Anyway, I finally interviewed Oliver Stone myself for @nmemagazine - mostly about The Doors, but also about dropping acid while serving in 'Nam, Natural Born Killers, Madonna's inabilty to act, his failed Bob Marley biopic and, of course, the naked Indian from Wayne's World 2. Because we live in the future now, my interview was mostly transcribed by AI. Sorry work experience kids!

Hunter's wife Anita told me that, even in his last years, he never got tired of seeing his byline in print. I don't imagine I will either. Mahalo.

Mum and dad should've started with a half.

Here's a story about my life. When I was 16 I was in a hotel room in Lima, Peru at the end of a genuinely life-changing trip (with @thepositivebirthmama, @hannahmlowes and many other beautiful people). There was only one TV channel in English, showing movies, and the announcer said that next up they had something I'd never heard of with Johnny Depp. I didn't know much about him except that a girl I liked fancied him, so I thought I'd check it out. It was 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and it hit my adolescent mind like an atom bomb. Right from that first blast of Janis Joplin wailing across the desert everything made a strange kind of sense. I spent the next two years reading every Hunter Thompson book I could lay my hands on. When I was 18 I was in Lucknow and picked up a copy of The Times of India. It had a Hunter quote on the front cover: 'Call on God, but row away from the rocks'. I thought that was odd until I flipped to the international news section and read that he'd killed himself the day before at Owl Farm, in Woody Creek outside Aspen, Colorado. I have a very clear memory of looking up at the sky that night and promising myself two things: That I'd try to make a living as a writer, and that one day I'd visit Owl Farm. Exactly a year later I wrote my first ever published piece, a tribute to Hunter for @lsesubeaver. A couple of months after that, on my 20th birthday, my girlfriend at the time (hi @hayleybedford86) and my friends (@kellycpowers, @aishao08 and others too cool for Instagram) got together to get the Gonzo fist tattooed on my back, which I had no idea they were planning but I liked as a way of branding myself into remembering the two promises I'd made to myself a year earlier. 13 years later, 17 after the phrase 'Fear and Loathing' first exploded in my brain, I finally made it to Owl Farm. I wrote a piece on Hunter's typewriter while I was there which I've adapted for today's @guardian. My eternal gratitude to the editors there for publishing it, to Anita @thegonzofoundation for having me, and, of course, to Hunter. This was my kind of Fun.

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