☮ Social ☮ PD Social Thread: N-Dimensional Funhouse of Possibilities

[Tralen]

Okay so I wasted (or not) a bunch of work time and got all 5 tracks/jams onto Youtube in a playlist. Here is the playlist. The first 2 are a warm up but there's some pretty good stuff. The third is my favorite, the 4th is also really good. I'm the drums, it's me and my bass and guitar friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDENr9RgDxw&list=PL4Yjm_IJoMSnFws64Ecg_3i_jVyrlgB8z

It reminds me of early Pink Floyd kind of especially some of it. Droning and raw, it was our first time playing together like this. This is basically the raw mix though which I think is impressive, my friend adjusted a few levels here and there when the bass got too loud. Interested what you guys think. I feel like I hit my stride on the third track and was a little stiff before that.

I'm playing on 2 snare drums with my hands, with the snares disengaged.

We almost lost it a couple of times in the middle of the third one but it comes together again really well.

It was also my first time ever doing this in my life, usually I just drum on my leg or chest when I'm listening to music.

That was awesome man. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Xorkoth]

The last one might be my best drumming, I forgot about that (just listened to the whole thing again). I had found more ways to get different tones out of the piccolo snare by then.

I took 18mg of MXE and then smoked a bong before doing this... we all got super, super high. I like how my friend left a bit of talking at the ends of the tracks, and at the end of the 4th one I crack a beer which the mics caught really cleanly. :D

So excited to get my djembe on about Friday.

Right at 5:20 on the third track, right about there I did some crazy counter-rhythm, sounds awesome.

 

[pharmakos]

pretty good jams xork. you've got good rhythm.

video 4 is set to private, can't view it.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

Damn, that is some pretty groovy jamming man.

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

Okay so I wasted (or not) a bunch of work time and got all 5 tracks/jams onto Youtube in a playlist. Here is the playlist. The first 2 are a warm up but there's some pretty good stuff. The third is my favorite, the 4th is also really good. I'm the drums, it's me and my bass and guitar friends.

Woah, that's actually really good. Color me impressed.

 

[Xorkoth]

Thanks guys. Can't wait to see what happens when we get more playing time together. Also the guitar player busts out way harder when there's a basic song underlying the jam (like chord progressions, somewhere where everyone comes together that is preordained), so that will be exciting too. We have another jam on Friday.

This was my first time doing this at all... I was super happy with what I did, I guess drumming on my thighs along to everything, and my feet in the car, for many years has paid off. I sing along to everything with my own parts too, a bunch of times in this jam I was blowing my mind with what I was thinking. Can't wait til I can get that out on guitar (but that will probably be a long while from now considering I am still a super beginner).

pretty good jams xork. you've got good rhythm.

video 4 is set to private, can't view it.

Oops, I just set it to public, should be viewable now. In some ways it's my favorite one.

So I thought last night was going to be the last time I could hang out with my lady friend before she leaves, but she actually leaves Thursday morning... originally today was going to be a packing day but that's all done already and she invited me to a party at the farm she lives at. Which should be really fun, I've had a lot of fun every time I've gone there. I'm probably going to hang out with other people there while she's gone.

Just took a low dose of DOC so I can be in DOC party mode tonight. Seemed like a good idea... I haven't tripped around her before but we've talked about it a lot. I won't really be tripping anyway.

Me and the bass player (a good friend of mine) have a pretty intense musical mind-meld going on. It's like I can just feel what he's going to do without thinking about it. He started really exploring tripping this summer and I've tripped with him a lot, especially MXE. We jammed a little on MXE + MDMA last week, and that was when I discovered the mind meld. Very useful for the rhythm section to be connected like that.

 

[Xorkoth]

Last night/this morning:

Sex at 8pm, good times.

10pm - bedtime, start to have sex then realize, too tired

2am - We're up, let's have (extra good) sex now

1130am - "I had a dream you were fucking me" "You realize we did get up in the middle of the night, right?" "Yeah, it was after that". Sex.

This girl is crazy man. Well not actually crazy, just horny. The desirable kind of crazy.

 

[swilow]

^Oh, your poor cock :D Sounds like its been a difficult few hours Xorky Can I just say, is morning sex possibly the best sex one can have??!? Something about the sensuality of having been asleep and warm and its all raw and visceral. Dunno, me likes it....

Xorkoth, I listened to your jams and dug them. I'll have to upload some of own tracks soon, I mainly create a kind of IDM/ambient/lo-fi/postrock sorta thing, really slow, raw, minimal stuff, mainly atmospheric but always with something melodic. I've actually downloaded one of your jams and I'm going to sample some of the drum beats (hope that's okay!!) because I really dig the roomy, boxy, natural reverberance. For me, the best music I can hear sounds like it was recorded in an ancient abandoned tomb.

Also, check this out as an example of a 2 piece drone band. Called Om, described as stoner metal, but I only hear minor metal elements. Its basically a drummer and bass player, and they create really mystical, eastern sound droning doomy metalrock.


So today, we are going tree-surfing today here:

theres a place in the mountains near me where they have a series of wooden platforms and rope bridges and stuff amongst the tree tops. I can't wait though its raining a little bit. I'm going to take 10-15mg of 4-Ho-MET and some MXE, and we were thinking of adding some DiPT as well! But I found that a bit too intense when I first tried it so I may actually just stick the other two... My brother has bought over some poppy pods and we are drinking opium tea as we speak/type/read. A day of hedonism amidst the splendour of tree!

Peace ya'll..

 

[Yeetbeat]

bahahaha Xorkoth dude I was giggling like a little kid reading that! Great to hear! heh

So today, we are going tree-surfing today here:

theres a place in the mountains near me where they have a series of wooden platforms and rope bridges and stuff amongst the tree tops. I can't wait though its raining a little bit. I'm going to take 10-15mg of 4-Ho-MET and some MXE, and we were thinking of adding some DiPT as well! But I found that a bit too intense when I first tried it so I may actually just stick the other two... My brother has bought over some poppy pods and we are drinking opium tea as we speak/type/read. A day of hedonism amidst the splendour of tree!

Peace ya'll..

SWEET JESUS I NEED THIS PLACE. Hoping to receive my own metocin and MXE this week....please, if you have the time I'd love a really basic report on this experience! Would be good to know how the two compounds worked together in that setting, as IMO it seriously looks EXACTLY like what I'm after

 

[swilow]

So far so good though I've vomited a few times probably from opium. I'll flesh out my response more later. Coming up as we speak

 

[coelophysis]

Hi willy willow

Ginger or something

 

[theacidtest]

Hey willow11, I love Om!

 

[Dondante]

Awesome jams, Xork!

Swirlow, don't forget to clip in!

 

[Xorkoth]

It sucks this girl is leaving you guys... But what a great last day/night. She likes to be physically close in ways I had never found matched until now. This thing got pretty intense... I didn't mean for it to but I'm glad it did even though it kinda hurts now. That's life man, pleasure and pain.

It got real emotional though for sure. Well I'm watching all her plants so she has to come back. . In a few months...

Oh and sample away oh willowy one! It makes me happy you want to.

I'm receiving the djembe I ordered tomorrow... What you heard was a piccolo snare with the snare disengaged. I can't wait to see what happens with a proper hand drumming instrument!

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

I have been tickled by one of life's happy coincidences, how kind of Jack Kerouac to comment upon the book I just revisited:

Long nights simply thinking about the usefulness of that little wire scourer, those little yellow copper things you buy in supermarkets for 10 cents, all to me infinitely more interesting than the stupid and senseless "Steppenwolf" novel in the shack which I read with a shrug, this old reflecting on the "conformity" of today and all the while he thought he was a big Nietzsche, old imitator of Dostoevsky 50 years too late (he feels tormented in a "personal hell" he calls it because he doesnt like what other people like!)

I am not surprised to find out that an adolescent profligate in an adult's body would so woefully misinterpret things. Good stuff, Jack ol'boy. This is shaping up to be a great book so far, perhaps his best, but I'm not quite half-way through so I'll see how things develop. I feel like this guy's my opposite in one respect, he doesn't believe in the world, but he believes in people.

Also, check this out as an example of a 2 piece drone band. Called Om, described as stoner metal, but I only hear minor metal elements. Its basically a drummer and bass player, and they create really mystical, eastern sound droning doomy metalrock.

Oh, neat stuff. For some reason my mind jumped to Kassia.

 

[Xorkoth]

So then, do you believe in the world, just not in people?

 

[Thorns Have Roses]

I think so, like, I cannot place face in any individual persons (I even have trouble with individual doctrines and perspectives), but I definitely believe in the goodness and potential of civilization/mankind (yet not once in my life have I felt like one of everyone/a member of society). If you see what I'm getting at, or, if I see what I'm getting at, I sometimes only think that I do.

That is one of the reasons I took so well to psychedelics, they help me empathize with, and be more kind in thought towards real life persons than I am naturally inclined to. Well, I've always been able to think good things about great thinkers and artists, and I get on pretty well with you all through this little of terminal of thoughts transmitted by lightning, but that ain't the same thing as flesh and blood interaction, and I don't trust those people enough to say anything true and beautiful to them, not that they'd appreciate it, even I'm too caught up in my thoughts to see such things most of the time.

Not to say that I despair the possibility of it, I'm just waiting for my people, and in the meantime I certainly have many small beautiful things of my own. A pine tree glowered at me the other day (I was quite hungover, had to throw up at work, everything shimmered as though objects were sweating out their excess suchness), and some trees I don't recognize looked like they were eternally frozen in poses of an exuberant dance, and their leaves an explosion of sea-foam green. I have my own secret world, I look up, at the level of the street lights or the tops of trees over buildings, especially at night, and there is so much beautiful interplay of light and shadow that all those folks who only look in front of them never take the time to see. They've probably never been struck with awe at plum blossoms in January, or seen their soul reflected in the eyes of a coyote during a chance encounter at 3 in the morning. These things belong to the hermits and eccentrics.

 

[solistus]

Good morning, PD soc! In between projects at work, in between 'weeks' of class (my schedule is kind of awesome this semester, lul), and in between short period of panic about finding a job for the summer... So sunrise just seemed like a perfect opportunity for a little solo roll. I was trying to save my serotonin for the Creature Carnival later this month (Beats Antique + Shpongle + Emancipator, oh em motherfucking gee), but I have 16 1/2 days downtime and a decent selection of pre/post-roll supplements (5htp, ala, green tea extract, magnesium citrate, and emergen-c packets). Trying to decide whether I want to fade toward sleep and maybe take some benzos to chill and eventually pass out, or try Shulgin's favorite flip (2cb on the MDMA comedown glow).

 

[Xorkoth]

I think so, like, I cannot place face in any individual persons (I even have trouble with individual doctrines and perspectives), but I definitely believe in the goodness and potential of civilization/mankind (yet not once in my life have I felt like one of everyone/a member of society). If you see what I'm getting at, or, if I see what I'm getting at, I sometimes only think that I do.

That is one of the reasons I took so well to psychedelics, they help me empathize with, and be more kind in thought towards real life persons than I am naturally inclined to. Well, I've always been able to think good things about great thinkers and artists, and I get on pretty well with you all through this little of terminal of thoughts transmitted by lightning, but that ain't the same thing as flesh and blood interaction, and I don't trust those people enough to say anything true and beautiful to them, not that they'd appreciate it, even I'm too caught up in my thoughts to see such things most of the time.

Not to say that I despair the possibility of it, I'm just waiting for my people, and in the meantime I certainly have many small beautiful things of my own. A pine tree glowered at me the other day (I was quite hungover, had to throw up at work, everything shimmered as though objects were sweating out their excess suchness), and some trees I don't recognize looked like they were eternally frozen in poses of an exuberant dance, and their leaves an explosion of sea-foam green. I have my own secret world, I look up, at the level of the street lights or the tops of trees over buildings, especially at night, and there is so much beautiful interplay of light and shadow that all those folks who only look in front of them never take the time to see. They've probably never been struck with awe at plum blossoms in January, or seen their soul reflected in the eyes of a coyote during a chance encounter at 3 in the morning. These things belong to the hermits and eccentrics.

Beautiful post.

So that was quite a bit harder than I anticipated... we really didn't want to say bye but eventually the time came. I was trying to imprint in my memory exactly how she feels and looks. I held it together until I drove off and then I cried a little, not full-on but multiple tears were running down my face and the lump in my throat was painful. Ah, bittersweet. Unexpected. I wish I didn't feel sad but I'm glad it happened, and she'll be back.

 

[pharmakos]

pictures of the little grove area in the middle of my school's campus