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[elucidator]

Wise words from Delsyd right there, that is something we all need to do/realize every now and then.

Massive bummer about the music gear MG, it massively sucks to lose the means to continue a hobby or beloved pastime.
I can like fully relate, as around a week ago my house was broken into and my pushbike, my laptop, and pretty much my entire stash of 20+ exotic chemicals was stolen. :/ They didn't get my B. Caapi or Chacruna and I had given a few doses of 2ce to a friend to hold, so I am not completely back to square one, which is relieving.

Having the main ways to my mind expansion, body transportation, and data utilization abrubtly stolen has been a very shocking experience for me. I have just moved into my own house, and am living on my own due to the last 2 sets of roommates being dropkicks and having next to no psychedelics in my stash, and no laptop has given me a severe lack of things to do.
I'm so glad I still have my books and a small percentage of my music.

It has always been a dream of mine to have a pet raven or crow, you are a very lucky person, amanitadine.

On another note, I just caught an ant crawling across my couch in my smoking room ,with a body slightly longer than a tailormade cigarette butt and a leg span of at least 2 inches, no joke.

I shall name him Sparky and release him far far away.

 

[SONN]

right now I'm currently getting a doctors note for "food poisoning" because I missed my classes monday due to LSD jetlag

feeling off since I took the LSD, really wish my girlfriend wasn't such a negative thinker so she could have helped me through some of my shit.

took st. Johns wort, ginkgo biloba, and rhodiola extract and i'm still feeling a little bit down. I need weed

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

eventually she got me in the shower

Why? Is there any evidence that this is actually helpful, sounds like poppycock to me. Well, I suppose it's better than being sent off in an ambulance just because there's blood in your vomit while you're losing consciousness on some poly-drug combo. Jerks.

went on to tell me the doctor wished to speak with me fairly urgently

That's a scary thing to hear, hopefully it's nothing too difficult for modern medicine to treat.

he pity party has reached its peak

You're about at the point where I would decide everyone is in my way, everything sucks, then start burning bridges and shakeup my lifestyle a bit. My brain tells me that's a poor way to solve things, but my gut says otherwise.


Y'all seem pretty down, allow me to cheer you up:

NSFW:

Assuming we're all fond of impressionism, which we are. Or else.


Edouard Manet's A bar at the Folies-Bergère


Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Dance at Bougival

 

[Xorkoth]

I'm going to head downtown and sell some art this evening. Just waiting for my pizza to reheat in the oven, eat it, and then I'm out. Then it's off to the Tuesday night funk jam later on... should be a fun night.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

And now for the coup de grâce:

NSFW:

Paul Cézanne - Maison Maria with a view of Chateau Noir



Vincent Van Gogh - Wheat field with Crows


Why not a poem, while we're at it? Maybe a little something by Lorca.

And for your musical accompaniment, Dvořák's Symphony No.9


Yeah, I followed up the lighthearted stuff with this. That's just the kind of guy I am.

Now, excuse me while I eat, drink, and be merry.

 

[amanitadine]

^ now you are just showing off great taste though! And eat, drink, and be merry by god! And listen to Goreckis Symphony no 3....the saddest, most beautiful piece of music ever written..

 

[Shambles]

Damn Georgia (Ira's wife) is so Beautful. I am not sure I ever really saw her face, she hides behind those drums. Love her girl next door look.

I love that video, never seen it before. Three things I loved...seeing '1997', the pic of Lou Reed with hair like Ira's, and the Jefferson Airplane record. Any band that pays homage to two of the three favorite American Bands that I love (the Dead are the third) can do no wrong in my eyes.

The Dead I can live without (apologies, I know that's sacrilege for US-based swirlsters ) but can't argue with the rest. Recent find I suspect you may approve of as much as I did. Just a shame about the sound quality... then again, all my VU live albums sound much the same...



And whilst I'm at it, a coupla more Eurocentric obscurities for the pile...

Echo & The Bunnymen - Heroin (live) - just found tonight too and is a laaaarvely version (also annoyingly cut short). Particularly like his alternate lyrics.

Joy Division - Sister Ray (live) - off Still, had the double vinyl, stupidly expensive quality, plush as all fukkery vinyly myself - is a great version as it is but man did they put some effort into the packaging

Hot Chip (feat Yo La Tengo) - Pale Blue Eyes (live) - sheer oddity value. Bears no real relation to anything else Hot Chip have ever done but with random addition of 2/3 of Yo La Tengo it's gotta be worth a go.

That aside, 'ello, PD

Don't worry, won't overburden y'all with my presence tonight. Suffice to say I'm in significantly better mood than I was last time. I blamed the (lack of) drugs 8)



EDIT: *waves at amani and almost agrees with that being the saddest, beautifullest piece of music ever... but falls just short... and will leave it hanging due to not having relevant proof to hand*

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

now you are just showing off

Am I the only one who goes the library and grabs a book about a artist/movement to check out the paintings when they're feeling down? You ought to try it sometime, maybe have a couple drinks first, and/or some herb.

So meant to indulge in media at 2pm, 3pm at the latest......starting at ~7:30pm. I'm getting really bad at this.

Y'all know how it is.

won't overburden y'all with my presence tonight

You know what St. Augustine of Hippo said,

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

 

[amanitadine]

No KNB, you are not alone in that pursuit! I would be dead without such!

Shammy, great taste in music per usual. As yes I know, it is sacrilegious in these parts, but I was always underwhelmed by The Dead too... First few albums were kinda interesting but then bored me...I did "see" them a few times but really I was just there to get drugs Just being honest!

But I love me some Yo La Tengo, Echo, and really, really love Joy Division (and New Order!)...and oh so much more...

G'nite y'all...

 

[Shambles]

Seeing as you asked nicely, Amani...



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(covers fetish 8))

 

[Roger&Me]

First few albums were kinda interesting but then bored me

their studio albums really aren't their best work. check out some live shows from 1977 if you want to hear them at their true peak

05.26.77 is one of my favorites

also do some drugs first imho. i didn't really "get" them until i did a bunch of acid one day and listened to some of their live stuff, then it just kind of all fell together and made total sense to me

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

^Yes, listen to Roger, he got me to appreciate them more. Still not somethin' I listen to sober, but they can magical in the right circumstances.

covers fetish

Say no more, old sport:

Having the main ways to my mind expansion, body transportation, and data utilization abrubtly stolen has been a very shocking experience for me.

I know the feeling, it's disorientating.

I honestly was plotting to assassinate that MF'er. First time I considered harming something besides a human in years.

I'm not so kind, I apply the castle doctrine. There was a cricket singing outside my window the first time I did DXM (like 720mg-ish), it entered my dissolved ego, leaving me with an affinity for them.

rogue corvid rehabilatators for our area

That's really cool. I'm under an animal rescue moratorium, since I foist too much responsibility on other folks. Like that one time back in 2009, found a pigeon with a broken wing, and so I got nourishment for it and planned to get some breeders in VA to come pick it up the next day. Then later in the night the RA found out I had it in my dresser and it violated the dorm policy, so I wandered around with it in a box, eventually I got the Lincoln Memorial nightguards (we were friends, since I chilled there a lot at like midnight) to hold it in the back room there until 5am, so I got a couple hours shut-eye, picked it up, sat around on a bench in the Shops at 2000 Penn for an hour or two, then I got the pizza place I ate at 6 days a week to let me store it in their closet for a couple hours until the Virginians finally arrived later in the morning.

I think birds are my favorite class of animals (*looks it up* oh hey, they actually are a class).

 

[Roger&Me]

^Yes, listen to Roger, he got me to appreciate them more. Still not somethin' I listen to sober, but they can magical in the right circumstances.

one more thing i would add, and that's all i really will because at the end of the day its a simple matter of taste, is that jerry garcia should be evaluated as a musician outside the grateful dead as well. in fact, i think some of his most profound playing happened during jerry garcia band concerts. it certainly was a more pure representation of his own sound, without being overshadowed by the grateful dead transdimensional groupmind thing they had going on.

take for instance this delightful version of john lennon's imagine, its so ostensibly simple but he nests so much musical complexity into his playing, nothing he plays is superflous. its all perfectly musical, in the sense that he plays perfectly through the chord structure, commenting deeply and extremely profoundly on the harmonic structure of the piece through melodic elements. if analyzed closely, the playing is so hyper-symmetrical its like a dmt hallucination, or some kind of modular form. through phrasing, he emphasizes every element of a given chord that differs from the other elements (e.g. if it has a minor third, diminished fifth, etc etc), and not only that, he does so while conserving melodic novelty, and phrasing that contains deep commentary on the parsimoniousness of the voice-leading of the chord changes. and there's even a sort of meta-level structure to the commentary, it starts very simply and then builds in complexity over the course of the piece. and keep in mind he was improvising the whole time. it's like this beautiful little love poem to john lennon's piece, like he highlights every element of the music that he really loves and brings that out and riffs on it.

the guy was maybe the most profound musical mind to ever play a guitar imho, definitely at the top of the heap at any rate. and i've studied the work of a lot of great players (esp. jazz players) very closely. few approach such a level of musical complexity while preserving a basic grooviness and enjoyability.

 

[perpetualdawn]

incredible
more please!

 

[SONN]

I took 30mg of ambien and stuff kinda looks different. but I also did k and smoked weed so it can't be that much.

it made me have double vision for an hour while i was on the k, but now it's just made me walk around my apartment doing really dumb compulsive things in stead of go to bed.

going to bed now. I feel a lot better than I did this morning :D

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

take for instance this delightful version of john lennon's imagine,

I'm digging it. I'll haveta check out more of his non-Dead stuff.

 

[SONN]

Why? Is there any evidence that this is actually helpful, sounds like poppycock to me. Well, I suppose it's better than being sent off in an ambulance just because there's blood in your vomit while you're losing consciousness on some poly-drug combo. Jerks.

I don't think there was blood in the vomit but I was losing consciousness to the point where the pulse made by my heartbeat caused this electric wiry feeling go up my nervous system. my lack of balance and the nausea put me in a dysphoric and dissociated state of not knowing what anything was and just panicking trying to end this crazy roller coaster of experience. My girlfriend had to deal with me in that state so she just started up the shower and said get in the shower, but the shower felt like even crazier trying to balance on my feet in this big morphing snowglobe like structure so I ran out and grabbed a towel and started to clean myself off.


Rog, my favorite song by the dead is Attics of my life. But I've never found a live version I could definitely say I liked better than the album. Do you have a favorite live version of attics of my life?

 

[swilow]

Don't worry, won't overburden y'all with my presence tonight.

I personally can never have too much Shambledelica.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Does anyone else like salvia like I do enough so to use it daily ?

 

[pharmakos]

lately i've been wondering if my mind is ready for salvia again. my previous experiences with it ~6 years ago were pretty horrifying... back then tho i wasn't as experienced in altered states, and had rarely gone very far "out there." i think i'd be a lot more ready for it now.

unfortunately, its illegal in my state.