I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to music – except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet room with only a typewriter to strum on and a yen to write a song. Who knows why? Maybe I just feel like singing – so I type.These quick electric keys are my Instrument, my harp, my RCA glass-tube microphone, and my fine soprano saxophone all at once. That is my music, for good or ill, and on some nights it will make me feel like a god. Veni, Vidi, Vici… That is when the fun starts…

I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to music – except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet room with only a typewriter to strum on and a yen to write a song. Who knows why? Maybe I just feel like singing – so I type.These quick electric keys are my Instrument, my harp, my RCA glass-tube microphone, and my fine soprano saxophone all at once. That is my music, for good or ill, and on some nights it will make me feel like a god. Veni, Vidi, Vici… That is when the fun starts…

– Hunter S. Thompson –

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

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