1978 Hunter S. Thompson documentary

It's funny to watch the BBC documentary crew try to keep up with him.

Of note is a conversation Thompson has with John Dean about two thirds of the way through. Dean brings his own tape recorder. Makes me wonder if he's been carrying a tape recorder around with him ever since the whole Watergate thing.



When they're talking about his memorial monument towards the end of the documentary, Thompson mentions that every two years the doctor tells him he has six months left to live. He kept it up for almost 30 more years before his suicide. Then he had his ashes shot out of this cannon: