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Raoul Duke

I am here for Networking

About Me

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time---and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My Interests

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

I'd like to meet:

You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Music:

U2, Dismemberment Plan, At the Drive In, Mars Volta, Sparta, Tool, Incubus, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Casket Lottery, Small Brown Bike, Taking Back Sunday, Tegan and Sara, Smashing Pumpkins, Presidents of the United States, Third Eye Blind, Reel Big Fish, Tribe Called Quest, Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Blink 182, Brand New, Burning Airlines, Cat Stevens, Cursive, Jealous Sound, Led Zeppelin, Green Day, Glassjaw, Get up Kids, Fugazi, Floggin Molly, Deltron 3030 (or just del, or the funky homosapien), Death Cab for Cutie, Interpol, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, Journey, Linkin Park, Men Without Hats, Morrisey, the Smiths, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Cake, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rescue...

Movies:

Reefer madness, easy rider, iron eagle movies

Television:

A man of my profession has to use his time wisely. I have no time for TV, other than nature programs and pornography.

Books:

The Naked Lunch, On the Road, Big Boom Theory, Sins of Omission, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Heroes:

Allen Ginsberg

My Blog

Strange events...

All I can tell you for now is that my life has become infintely more dangerous. I am being followed home, threatened via phone messages and rocks thrown through my dining room window, and my computer...
Posted by Raoul Duke on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Fear and loathing

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like: "I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive." Suddenly, there w...
Posted by Raoul Duke on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The open road

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. M...
Posted by Raoul Duke on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Hmmmm...

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a main era---the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixt...
Posted by Raoul Duke on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST