A Valentine's Love Letter to Badass Rock Writers and Counterculture Journalism

Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Legs McNeil, Nick Tosches, Rex Weiner, and because I'm feeling sassy as hell, Michael O'Donoghue. Yep, this is a purely selfish and HUGELY self-indulgent episode where I read you things that recently made my heart swoon. Things I love for the pure energy of the language used, but that I can't graft onto any one band or film episode. Much brutality and obnoxiousness and vulgarity in this episode. But it's endearing and inspiring because it's delivered to us by a reckless and desperate generation with heart and intellect and guts, god damn it. Not for the easily offended, especially those who refuse to believe that historical/cultural context should affect how we process language that we personally wouldn't use today, even around our friends.  Not asking anyone to love it or sign off on it, but I will not pretend I have the authority or responsibility to make the nasty words palatable for people who will be offended by them regardless. If you are explaining, you are losing, as someone much smarter than myself on NPR said today about political debate tactics.   Choose your preferred method of supporting the show for no money or maybe some money PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whatsamatta Shirts: https://www.bonfire.com/store/justtheworstshirtsever/ Subscribe to me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4Up7xGgjioEC07bjwu4mQ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RockFilmRock Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justtheworstever/ Suicide Prevention, Text/Call: 988 https://afsp.org/ National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-4673 https://www.rainn.org/resources   My version of "Scarecrow" featured at the end of the episode. (click "more" button to download free) https://soundcloud.com/xagentxsmithx/scarecrow-siouxsie-and-the-banshees References:  https://archive.org/details/woodstockcensusn0000wein/page/134/mode/2up http://bigscreenbookclub.blogspot.com/2018/08/interview-original-adventures-of-ford.html https://crimespreemag.com/interview-with-rex-weiner/ https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&dq=rex+weiner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpmfrbs-v8AhWxJn0KHRgkDvMQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=rex%20weiner&f=false https://pleasekillme.com/remembering-punk-magazine/ http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_579_-_nick_tosches https://archive.creem.com/authors/nick-tosches and a free archive of Tosches books: https://archive.org/search?query=nick+tosches&page=2 https://archive.org/details/woodstockcensusn0000wein/page/134/mode/2up https://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/live-through-this-a-conversation-with-legs-mcneil/Content?oid=2175661