Gibberings CL: Reaching for Dangerous Levels of Sobriety

[ColtDan]

Yeah amazing book. read it twice when i was younger. love it. i always envisioned what it should have been like turned into a film, but typically the film was shite

 

[mydrugbuddy]

I've read Gerald's Game, and a couple of others that i cant currently remember the titles of, i thought GG was brilliant. The way he was describing the painstaking process of a woman chained to the bed after some sex game went wrong, she was trying to get free before a wolf got at her. He went into such detail but still made it exciting. He made her reaching up to a shelf above the bed to reach something stretch out over many pages, but kept the tension up, i dunno how he does it.

 

[swampdragon]

I adore Desolation Angels and Big Sur, but On the Road never really grabbed me.

Never much liked Stephen King either, always preferred James Herbert for horror stuffs.

This makes me want to spend the weekend reading.

 

[ColtDan]

Ah yeah james herbert. i remember reading the fog and the rats or something

 

[NightsEpiphany]

They were terrifying. eww rats

Theres a fostering ad with a little boy that looks just like dan popping up constantly on this pc.. cracks me up i wish i could paste it but not sure how.

 

[Sammy G]

This makes me want to spend the weekend reading.

I bet you won't.

I bet you'll spend the weekend getting mashed like most of the degenerates in this thread.

They were terrifying. eww rats

What have rats done to you?

 

[ColtDan]

Swampy has DMT and hasnt even tried it yet. disgraceful

 

[Sammy G]

Pfffffftttttttttt! What little respect I had is waning.

 

[ColtDan]

Shes had it for ages as well

 

[mydrugbuddy]

tbh id be a bit nervous about it too, but that might not be her reason for not trying it yet. I dont think I'll bother with it.

 

[Sammy G]

Nervous about DMT? Give over!

It's one of the least scary drugs I've ever taken, at least smoked. Total bliss. Oral DMT is a different kettle of fish, but it's still unbelievably euphoric, just far longer lasting.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

i dont know where id got the impression that it was somehow scary from. 8(

 

[ColtDan]

Everybody needs to try it

 

[Marmalade]

God I need to drink some GOOD beer. Off out to go foraging.

 

[ColtDan]

Im drinking some sterotypical wife beater stella or whatever its classed as. chavving it up with me stella m8


Does the job. happy days

 

[*dharmabum*]

I adore Desolation Angels and Big Sur

The Dharma Bums is also great imo :D

Reading it while/after coming down from a fairly life-changing 4-MeO-PCP experience a few years ago was amazingly inspiring.

While we're on the topic of the Beats here's a Ginsberg poem that randomly popped into my head earlier this week:

NSFW:

A Supermarket in California

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for
I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache
self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families
shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the
avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what
were you doing down by the watermelons?

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,
poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery
boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the
pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans
following you, and followed in my imagination by the store
detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our
solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen
delicacy, and never passing the cashier.

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in
an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the
supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The
trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be
lonely.

Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and
you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat
disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

 

[swampdragon]

I bet you won't.

I bet you'll spend the weekend getting mashed like most of the degenerates in this thread.

Nah. Gonna have a quiet one snuggled in blankets and books, I think. (Weed doesn't count, right?)

Swampy has DMT and hasnt even tried it yet. disgraceful

Oi you, you can't go around saying things like that. I'll lose my EADD membership card if I'm not careful.

Pfffffftttttttttt! What little respect I had is waning.

Ahem, "little"?

 

[ColtDan]

Hahaha

Blankets, books and DMT. do it

Very special stuff that. im not religious but ive experienced things on that which have left me wondering

 

[Tangerine Dream]

Waiting for my bitcoin wallet to sync is a bitch so is not being delivered laptop in specified time period GRRRRR.

Oh well. Drinking rubbish cider and smoking weed from my pipe for the rest of the night I guess. ON THIS SHIT NETBOOK!

Deep breaths.

 

[swampdragon]

Blankets, books and DMT. do it

If you nag me any more you'll start to sound like my mother.

Also dharmabum, yes, I'd forgotten about that one! Good Ginsberg too.