☮ Social ☮ PD Social Talk Thread: Somatic Swirly Sepia Summer Sausage Stage Set Suppository

[vortech]

but am not sure if I have much to say considering 75% of my experience is with MXE, which the entire book has already been written about,

You really think I was able to write EVERYTHING there is able to be said about MXE, or consciousness and the nature or reality? I value your perspective which is why I especially invite my bluelight PD friends in on this next project.
At any rate I'm happy to hear your are about half way through the book; the second half is where it gets much deeper I would hope that contributors to this next project have read the first so that we know where we are at!
Regarding astrology, I'm about to read the link you shared. I have always been quite sensitive to the lunar cycle...

 

[swilow]

i wish i could get a hive.
that would be cool.
like a beehive.
get honey.
cant do that here

I can imagine something pretty nice about keeping bees. They are admirable things really, so organised and complex yet individally just simple creatures.

Honey is not vegan but I still consume it.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I don't usually read the funnies but randomly happened upon this in WuMo, an apparently mainstream comic strip, in the Daily News today. I love it. The woowoo plant spirit meme is spreading enough to get lampooned in mainstream newspaper comics.

I buy oil behind our Daily News place. Oh the irony.

In other news I'm coming down off the worst acid trip of my life. It's not even existential shit, it's just... why the fuck do people act the way they do?! Can't they fuckin see that we all care about them and want what's best for them!?

 

[vortech]

That lunar astrology link was a good read. It was on point from my perspective and totally agree this month has had a lot of creative energy in it, as well as change, and it makes sense that the two go hand-in-hand. It is reassuring that I should focus on this for the rest of the month and go with my intuition at every step. I've been encountering a lot of resistance on the music-making front, which has led me to the realization that I need to switch to Linux, something I should have done a long time ago but was resistance to change. The short explanation is that my music production software has,been fucking up royally as I try to finish a bunch of songs, and this is not your average glitch type stuff. Like, Ill save a project,and then the next day Ill open it to find that all of the patterns have dissappeared, or all of the fx channels, or half of the automation clips. I have a conspiracy theory that is unfortunately,the most logical explanation at this point. The same type of shit happened last year which led to me not working on any music for literally a year. This time,I refuse to let these 'mysterious forces' impede my creative process. I should be secure from it by switching to Linux. I will have to learn new software, how much I need to learn depends on if I can run my music software from a virtual box inside linux (and I'm nearly positive these glitches wont happen from that environment).
I've downloaded Ubuntu Studio Edition to start. Anyone linux people have recommendation?

 

[vortech]

The other thing that just feels right about Linux is that I'm ideologically aligned with everything that it represents. Windows and Mac represent capitalism in so many ways. It is profit-driven, not free for everyone, closed source, and increasingly as we know, not secure. Apparently there are back doors on Win and Mac that allow the NSA to do whatever the fuck it wants, and if the NSA has access, I can only imagine who else. I mean, the NSA itself was recently hacked (lol I bet they run windows too) and while we don't know exactly what the hackers did, who knows, maybe they did get those access codes. Anyway I'm looking forward to my newfound sense of software righteousness.

 

[Help?!?!]

Ahh computes brings back good memories! I'm on the 1-ethnylcyclohexanol with a bit of ethanol. Feels great mannnnnn!

 

[Cream Gravy?]

So last night, my two friends and I went down to trip with another buddy of ours who's quite a cool dude, but is an ex-navy guy. Needless to say, he's a bit macho. Long story short, my one buddy who has problems when he drinks, well, got drunk and started mouthing off to the ex-navy guy who's home we were tripping at. Started shouting and stomping around despite the fact that he had an old lady landlord below who hates that shit. For whatever reason, my drunk friend just lost it, and our ex-navy friend ended up in a drawn out conflict with him, choking him out every time he would start fussing and shouting and stomping. The one who was being a drunk ass felt supremely butt-hurt that my other friend and I hadn't done anything to stop our navy buddy from choking him... we had been wanting to wail on him ourselves for months when he was drinking, but we just didn't have the heart... so even though this beating was a long time coming, it left me upset as all heck, and full of guilt. I started sobbing while just sitting on the ground while these guys were all arguing, one choking the other and the third friend trying to mediate. In the end the drunk friend got kicked out and banished from ever returning to our navy buddy's place, and because I had driven us there (about an hour away) I knew we couldn't just leave him to walk around, piss ass drunk in the night, and end up mugged, raped or arrested. So because of his drunken stupidity, all three of us had to leave, when I was still peaking fairly hard and had drank a fair amount of beer and was in no state to drive.

My drunken friend definitely has alcoholism issues... my other friend and I agreed to never hang out with him again if he drinks, and I sincerely hope he never touches alcohol again. We've been debating on whether to tell his parents, to try and get him some real help, maybe AA or something... but I'm still on the fence, as I supremely value independence and having the choice to fall down a hole if one so desires to...

Other than that fiasco, it was actually a really intense trip, full of laughter and insanity in all the right ways until that conflict arose... It makes me feel terrible because I provided the acid. I should have known that my friend was too weak minded to handle it, I've known him for years... it's just that in past trips he's handled things fine. Something just snapped in him this time... right about when we were peaking, we watched this movie Samsara (which I highly recommend by the way!) and something about that movie must have just supremely disturbed him... it's definitely social commentary, and social commentary movies always tend to bring out the most insanity in trippers I've noticed...

Anyways, I just wanted to rant about that. We were in such a rush to leave that i left my vape charger there, and have to drive an hour there and back again to be able to use my vape >.> so that's just a real bummer... I want my hash oil vape!

Be careful in who you choose to trip with PD. Groups can be great, but they can also be your worst nightmare...

 

[swilow]

I can't take the idea of astrology seriously. How on earth would the position of stars thousands of years ago impact my life? Its so anthropocentric. We are irrelevant to the universe.

 

[Bigazznugz]

im so tired of life. i have no friends, no girls in my life, no nothing. whatever i do nothing changes. i have no one to talk to. i see no way out. people online dont help me. i have no way to make friends. i will be a loser forever. it makes me so sad to see other people living nice lives because i know that i cant have that. i will probably never be in a relationship again. i hurt the only person who ever loved me so bad that she wont talk to me anymore. nobody cares. theres no way out. i will be alone for eternity.things will never get better. i lose hope more and more as the time passes. things will never get better for me. even when ive straightened up things didnt get any better. it doesnt matter what i do. things just dont change.

Yeah if you feel soorry for yourself for the rest of time than yes you will be misearable. Stop feeling sorry for u self and do somthing with your life

 

[Bigazznugz]

Brazil gold!!!! Yay

 

[yepyepwoah]

Man, I finally went skydiving the other day. Have been wanting to for years, but never did. It went so quick, and wasnt scary really liKe O thought it would be. Went tandem with an instructor. In the plane on the way up there was a team of 4/5 competative divers and a few people in wingsuits. I just got the feeling this is sething I could get really into. The place I went offers certification training. I allready booked a second tandem jump because ot was half price if I got it that day. After that I can start solo, I think its 18 jumps for certification. I wish I was rich I would have it done in a week.

It was such a rush. The only scary part was the 1/2 a second it took to rememberI dont really care if I die, and if I do Id rather go out loke this than many other ways I can imagine.

Also won Prophets of Rage tickets from the radio. Guitar,drummer,basist from Rage Against The Machine and dudes from Publoc Enemy and Cypress Hill singing. Rage covers, pe/ch covera, original material that sounds like rage. Should be fun. Also awolnation is playing.

 

[yepyepwoah]

That lunar astrology link was a good read. It was on point from my perspective and totally agree this month has had a lot of creative energy in it, as well as change, and it makes sense that the two go hand-in-hand. It is reassuring that I should focus on this for the rest of the month and go with my intuition at every step. I've been encountering a lot of resistance on the music-making front, which has led me to the realization that I need to switch to Linux, something I should have done a long time ago but was resistance to change. The short explanation is that my music production software has,been fucking up royally as I try to finish a bunch of songs, and this is not your average glitch type stuff. Like, Ill save a project,and then the next day Ill open it to find that all of the patterns have dissappeared, or all of the fx channels, or half of the automation clips. I have a conspiracy theory that is unfortunately,the most logical explanation at this point. The same type of shit happened last year which led to me not working on any music for literally a year. This time,I refuse to let these 'mysterious forces' impede my creative process. I should be secure from it by switching to Linux. I will have to learn new software, how much I need to learn depends on if I can run my music software from a virtual box inside linux (and I'm nearly positive these glitches wont happen from that environment).
I've downloaded Ubuntu Studio Edition to start. Anyone linux people have recommendation?

Well since Microsoft sold their soul to the 3 letter agencies, and windows 10 is just spyware... Yah. You have probably atrackted enough attention some people want to fuck with you and make you think you are going crazy.

 

[swilow]

The definition of paranoia.

 

[yepyepwoah]

Doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Edit: Or Vortec could have multiple personalities and one hates his music. Or someone is stealing the music to use as their own. The only thing unpossible is Kimpossible

 

[Cream Gravy?]

Also won Prophets of Rage tickets from the radio. Guitar,drummer,basist from Rage Against The Machine and dudes from Publoc Enemy and Cypress Hill singing. Rage covers, pe/ch covera, original material that sounds like rage. Should be fun. Also awolnation is playing.

No joke, I know the exact station you won those tickets from hahah. I don't listen to it much these days though because they go all over the place with the music selection, hardly what I'd call alternative or punk anymore. I'm more into the community college station but not many folks have heard of it here. As they say on that station in the breaks, "(Our city) did for radio what the Hindenburg did for blimps."

I did, however, hear this song on that "alternative" station while driving back still tripping from the island two nights ago:

 

[lysergamide]

I've downloaded Ubuntu Studio Edition to start. Anyone linux people have recommendation?

If you like music production, Linux is the worst OS for it. All the best software available is commercially sold as a product, DAWs/Traktor/etc are usually unsupported by Linux and instead only supported on Windows/OSX. I love Linux for server and development + I like navigating via command-line, but for anything outside that your going to hit massive obstacles.

 

[yepyepwoah]

No joke, I know the exact station you won those tickets from hahah. I don't listen to it much these days though because they go all over the place with the music selection, hardly what I'd call alternative or punk anymore. I'm more into the community college station but not many folks have heard of it here. As they say on that station in the breaks, "(Our city) did for radio what the Hindenburg did for blimps."

I did, however, hear this song on that "alternative" station while driving back still tripping from the island two nights ago:

I listen when I do not feel like fucking with Spotify/my phone. It fucked me over when they turned the classical station all digital. That was 85% of what I listened to in the car, especially late night drive homes after concerts. Time to relax after the aggressive fun. Now its either that or the rap station. I always call anytime they give shit away regardless of what it is. Second time Ive won in a year. Pretty good since its not on that much.

I do keep hearing the new Blink 182 songs. Makes me remember how much fun it was seeing them and A Day To Remember a few weeks back. I love ADTR, but the sound was horrible. Same for first few blink songs, then like someone flipped a switch it was perfect for the rest of their set.

 

[SKL]

i wish i could get a hive.
that would be cool.
like a beehive.
get honey.
cant do that here

I can imagine something pretty nice about keeping bees. They are admirable things really, so organised and complex yet individally just simple creatures.

Honey is not vegan but I still consume it.

I thought he was talking about drugs and if I should hit report (I was quite tired and now I don't think he was, if anything because he's too young, but shit maybe he was?) but yeah beekeeping does sound like it would be pretty chill. I was watching not too long ago a film or episode whose name I cannot recall in which a beekeeper (a woman with some sort of sophistication) expressed similar sentiments, the bee in micro and macro context. The bees were somewhat plot relevant, they were being harmed by nuclear experiments ca WW2 (is this the poison gas episode of Foyle's War? or an episode of Manhattan? …

… both set in the same era, both look pretty good, I am a big fan of period pieces and the sets, props, hair, etc. are huge for me, but the first tends to stick with history or plausible enough personalities, trends, and events within; whereas the second is so full of infuriating anachronism and blunders I couldn't take it, not on a Washington's Spies or Abraham Lincoln Zombie Killer level, but was unwatchable for me on that account, not to mention the very unsubtle inserts of modern political and social concerns to the era in question, which is much, much subtler and actually not really anachronistic in Foyle, although the not very good Palestine episode got me pissed off pretty good (obiter: the very pretty Amber Rose Revah isn't Jewish, but can apparently be given any ethnicity to play and pull it off; actually it's pretty amazing, Google it) but anyway for balance on 1948, please view the beautiful and incredibly brave miniseries (or long form film, really) The Promise by Peter Kosminsky^*—a lesson to be drawn is that our cousins across the pond do these things a hell of a lot better.)

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^* Watch it. Put it ahead of your queue or whatever. The best treatment of 1947-1948 on film and better than most that you will find in print or anywhere else and so balanced that it got him ostracized by and death threats from his own people.

 

[Xorkoth]

Definitely talking about real bees, or I'll eat my left foot, and maybe my right one as well if the left one is tasty enough.

Well I'm back from vacation. It was good, intense, painful, and relaxing. I'm so glad to be back. Had a good band practice yesterday and a wonderful time getting to be with my girl again. Now I'm back to work, back to "the grind". But really, my grind is good, I really like it. Got a show tomorrow, oh yeah.

Spending time with my family just reiterated to me how much I love my life here. My siblings are both solidly in the Chicago-style live to work mode (from my perspective at least)... they're happy but at the same time, stressed and rarely get to experience real unbridled joy, I think. Their lives are dominated by their jobs (pretty high-level, high-pressure career jobs). My sister just turned 30 and she feels old and overworked (whereas I am 33 and I feel young and vital and energetic)... my brother is furiously trying to buy a house, settle down and satisfy his wife with a child after he gets things all worked out. They're both so serious all the time, even on vacation they seemed relatively somber most of the time. My dad can't do anything by himself anymore (anything at all) and my mom is 100% taking care of him, and her mother, and the really old family dog, and it's such a huge strain on her. Life is just passing by for them all it looks like (I don't know if they actually feel this way but it's what I feel when I observe them). It makes me infinitely thankful that I have this cool existence where I get to do fun stuff and work on things that really fill me up mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I wish the same for them but all I can do is do me and it brings them happiness to see that I am doing that.

 

[PotatoMan]

jumping on the K train for a while. a break from acid is needed. it sorta lost its magic i guess. i also lost 3 tabs the other day so i took it as a sign. should be receiving one soon but only to mix with K at least once cos it's epic. i'll save half for an upcoming festival as well.

i'm gonna explore mushrooms a bit more. i haven't given it too many deep trips. i tried 5g the other day but did not trip like i thought i would have.