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Love letter to LA

This entry was posted on September 25, 2021, in Other. Bookmark the permalink.

Published in issue one of Good Place magazine, 2021.

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Kevin EG Perry is a writer for The Independent.

His work has also appeared in NME, Vice, The Guardian, British GQ, Lonely Planet Traveller and numerous other publications.

He was shortlisted for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Award in 2009.

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

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On Friday 19 March 1971, the journalist Hunter Thompson and the lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta were sitting in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel – “in the patio section, of course” – drinking singapore slings and plotting the high-speed desert trip that would inspire Thompson’s most celebrated work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Fifty years and seven months later, I’m sitting on that same patio with the filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez, who made an incisive documentary about Acosta’s wild life and times, The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo. Reading Thompson as a teenager made me want to write for a living, so my plan had been to mark the 50th anniversary of Fear and Loathing first appearing in Rolling Stone by having a few drinks and toasting the memory of these two icons of cultural rebellion. Rodriguez has other ideas. “We have to rethink a lot of our gods,” he tells me, a smile breaking through his short-cropped snowy beard but his eyes deadly serious. “We become conservative if we’re still trying to preserve the mythologies of our youth.” I almost spit out my singapore sling. // My story 'Was Hunter Thompson a Bad Art Friend?' in today's @the.independent
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