Dennis Hooper and meandering thoughts of an old guy

[okietool]

The link I posted to "The Pusher" in the other thread led to this one.

I think Dennis got petty far out there in his life. I think he made it back. I wonder if he was satisfied with how it turned out?
I'm pretty good with where I am and how I got here. If it's over tomorrow, I'll be satisfied, don't get me wrong, I'm not ready to go, but who is? I look back from here and wonder, "When the frac did I get old?" "Why the frac does being old have to be so damn painful?"
I think "Boy I wish I had done this or hadn't done that" but if you jack with one thing it changes everything. I do have regrets, but nothing big time, no mass murders, no pyromaniacal binges. I wish I had treated some people I cared about better. I wasn't mean, just not as attentive as I should have been.
I kind of got pretty far from shore too. I think I made it back okay.
All in all, I've had a cracker jack of a good time. I've been in the right place at the right time more than once, and escaped by the skin of my teeth more than once.
My kids have had it pretty good too.
I worry about my grandkids a lot more than I ever did about my kids. It looks like I'm leaving them a pretty crappy situation.

 

[dennishoddy]

Loved easy Rider.

 

[okietool]

And no I'm not high.
I don't drink, smoke or chew.

 

[okietool]

Loved easy Rider.

It's not quite as "cutting edge" as it was when I saw it at the drive in. I still like it tho.

 

[dennishoddy]

Yep, drive in as well. i wanted to turn in my dirt bike for a chopper.

 

[okietool]

Yep, drive in as well. i wanted to turn in my dirt bike for a chopper.

I wanted a Yamaha Twin Jet 100

 

[caojyn]

Ohhh Dennis Hopper, I thought you meant my elementary pe coach.

 

[okietool]

What can I say, low expectations.

 

[dennishoddy]

I wanted a Yamaha Twin Jet 100

God the memories!
I worked at a Yamaha dealership in the teen years part time as clean up person. We got a twin jet 100 that had been wrecked, and put the engine, tranny, etc on a go cart. That bad boy was FAST!!

 

[ignerntbend]

Lots of people refuse to remember that Dennis Hopper in True Grit wound-up on the wrong end of a knife fight when all he was trying to do was butcher a turkey for the people. Strange what we remember.