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You know, last I heard there were coca tea bars operating in the open in Vancouver, B.C.
I also have black seed oil coming that has a 3x higher thymoquinone content than "average" black seed oil.
Well, keep your eyes peeled for interaction with psychedelics. I'm wondering if my experience was a fluke
 
I just ordered some coca tea (mambe, specifically, which is, I guess, a powdered coca combined with activators that is designed to use as a quid). Been wanting to try coca (the leaf, as opposed to cocaine) for the longest time. Found where to get it. Considering all the cocaine I ever find is basically levamisole, I think this is my best chance to actually try cocaine these days, failing knowing someone close to the source. And as the leaf, it is supposed to be much gentler and more functional, a caffeine substitute with nicer qualities. I'm excited, I should get it around the 8th. :)
I don't remember coca tea being particularly stimulating, it's subtle as far as I remember, but still nice. However, it works amazingly for altitude sickness. It has saved me twice in the heights of the Andes.

In Bolivia you can see people chewing them constantly, I guess its kinda like how people chew Khat.
 
I have a 4day festival coming up.
Need to prepare my fear and loathing kit.
Probably mostly going for the L and some Ket.
I will also stock up on nitrous and alcohol.
Im really not a Coke guy, but will probably bring half a g just to stay awake.
I have some other stuff like a few 2cb pellets.
Would probably work to get somewhere in the last night.

I also have some DOC, but i did that beast on a festival last year.
Was great but i just dont have the feel for it ATM.
 
I have a 4day festival coming up.
Need to prepare my fear and loathing kit.
Probably mostly going for the L and some Ket.
I will also stock up on nitrous and alcohol.
Im really not a Coke guy, but will probably bring half a g just to stay awake.
I have some other stuff like a few 2cb pellets.
Would probably work to get somewhere in the last night.

I also have some DOC, but i did that beast on a festival last year.
Was great but i just dont have the feel for it ATM.
Nice :) 5 day one for me next week, weather should be 10/10. No weed btw, surely not right?
I'll be doing my best UK bro impression this year, ketamine, MDMA and some mephedrone... On the fence about the typical haircut though
 
I have a 4day festival coming up.
Need to prepare my fear and loathing kit.
Probably mostly going for the L and some Ket.
I will also stock up on nitrous and alcohol.
Im really not a Coke guy, but will probably bring half a g just to stay awake.
I have some other stuff like a few 2cb pellets.
Would probably work to get somewhere in the last night.

I also have some DOC, but i did that beast on a festival last year.
Was great but i just dont have the feel for it ATM.

Have fun! I love festival season, I've done 4 of them so far this year, my band played at 3 of them so it was part work, part fun, but actually it was all fun because playing music is the best. We have one more on the books but might slip another in there, too. I always bring tons of drugs to festivals, way overprepared on the drug front. I pre-weigh doses of various things and I end up bringing the same bag of foil packets all season, and gradually work through and/or trade them.

Usually in the past I've always gone with AMT or DOC, and this year I did DOC once, but my AMT packets are still in my festival backpack and last time I opted for LSD instead. I have the best LSD I've ever had, about 20 hits left, these orange pyramid gels with gold flecks in them. Every time I take it, I become super social, and just have a day of euphoria and can sleep fine at the end of it.
 
Does anyone else have this ancient sesame street animation embedded in their earliest memories?


Someone pieced together some info about the clip in 2008
https://daddytypes.com/2008/10/17/whats_the_story_with_the_four-armed_swami_counting_to_twenty.php

Which I'm reposting here in hopes that this fragment will be preserved:
Alright, so I'm a little obsessed with what is admittedly my favorite old school Sesame Street animation ever: the four-armed swami counting to 20. But what can I do? To this day, I don't say "Once, doce, trece, catorce" in my head; I sing them. And to a sitar accompaniment.
Once it came back onto YouTube, I started looking at the 1971 animation through grown-up eyes, and I realized it's really quite beautiful. The version above is the cleanest copy I've found to date [The versions linked in previous DT posts have all disappeared from the YouTube, but it's always there; just search for "sesame street guru" or "sesame street swami." It's also included on Disc 2 of the Sesame Street Old School, Vol 1 DVD.]
I find it kind of maddening and borderline irresponsible that Children's Television Workshop, aka Sesame Workshop doesn't do more for their legacy and the artists who helped create such memorable elements of our culture.
There's not even a definitive title and production credit published for the swami clip, for example. So here's what I've pieced together from various message boards and comment threads. What follows is either fascinating or a complete waste of time, depending:
"Sesame Street Swami" debuted November 8, 1971 in Episode 276, the first show in the 'Street's third season, in both English and Spanish. The version above, posted by YouTube user turkeytv, is the only one to mention a title, "Mystic Twenty."
Music
A commenter on this version, gives the music credits:
Jeannie Piersol -Vocals
Darby Slick - Guitar
Peter van Gelder -Sitar
The three were supposedly in The Great Society together, a seminal Haight Ashbury band, but that makes no sense, because The Great Society was founded in 1965 by Darby Slick's brother Jerry and Jerry's wife Grace, and only lasted like a year before Grace jumped to Jefferson Airplane. Van Gelder was a student of the great Ali Akbar Khan and one of the pioneers of introducing sitar music to the west. I should say "is," not "was"; van Gelder's still kickin' it Indian school in Sonoma.
But wait, in Craig Fenton's 2006 fan bible, Take Me to a Circus Tent: The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual, Jerry Slick talked about producing "Jazzy Spies" in November 1969, the classic Sesame Street counting series which, of course, includes his then-famous-and-estranged wife Grace Slicks' voiceover. Then he added this:
I did other Sesame Street with music by three former members of The Great Society--Darby, Peter on sitar, and vocals by Jeannie Piersol [?], who rehearsed with the Great Society in the very beginning, but decided to be a mom instead. Sad, 'cause Grace really liked singing with her.
Though she's called Jeannie here, the other mentions on Fenton's book are to Jennie Piersol.

An animation thread on Muppetcentral.com says "Jeff [sic] and Darby Slick" produced the four-armed guru segment, and that Darby wrote the music.
Animation
That same 2003 thread credits the swami animation to the San Francisco-based studio that produced so many iconic shorts for Sesame Street, Electric Company and other shows, Imagination, Inc., owned by Jeffrey Hale. Imagination, Inc. also did "Jazzy Spies" and "Pinball Number Count."

Sesame Street Swami - 3
The designs of this body of Imagination, Inc. animation are awesome and would make incredible murals in a nursery. Or bedding, even. I don't know. But just imagine a wall filled with the swami morphed into flowers, or with the trippy backgrounds from the numbers, or maybe with a crisply redrawn black and white counting contraption. Are Sesame's licensing execs asleep at the wheel?
After several years on the farthest back burner I've got, I thought I had a breakthrough last night when Jonathan Hoefler linked to the NY Public Library's digital gallery. There I found an 1868 lithograph design portfolio called The grammar of ornament : illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament, one hundred and twelve plates. There are no exact matches, but the Egyptian, Persian, and [duh] Indian patterns are remarkably similar to the ones in the swami animation. I expect the designs Imagination, Inc. used will turn up in a similar 19th c. pattern book somewhere.
nypl_ornament_egypt.jpg

So I grabbed all the swami backgrounds and posted them to flickr in the hopes that someone will eventually be able to identify the original source of the designs. If you have any 19th century ornament portfolios, I hope you'll check them for psychedelic hippie inspiration.
Sesame Street Counting Swami backgrounds photoset [daddytypes flickr stream]
posted October 17, 2008 1:10 AM | add to del.icio.us | digg this |
 
Have fun! I love festival season, I've done 4 of them so far this year, my band played at 3 of them so it was part work, part fun, but actually it was all fun because playing music is the best. We have one more on the books but might slip another in there, too. I always bring tons of drugs to festivals, way overprepared on the drug front. I pre-weigh doses of various things and I end up bringing the same bag of foil packets all season, and gradually work through and/or trade them.

Usually in the past I've always gone with AMT or DOC, and this year I did DOC once, but my AMT packets are still in my festival backpack and last time I opted for LSD instead. I have the best LSD I've ever had, about 20 hits left, these orange pyramid gels with gold flecks in them. Every time I take it, I become super social, and just have a day of euphoria and can sleep fine at the end of it.
Nice, i also have some orange microdots im bringing.
But these are the stars that come in various colours.
Are supposed to be legit 150ug, only one way to find out.
 
Does anyone else have this ancient sesame street animation embedded in their earliest memories?


Someone pieced together some info about the clip in 2008
https://daddytypes.com/2008/10/17/whats_the_story_with_the_four-armed_swami_counting_to_twenty.php

Which I'm reposting here in hopes that this fragment will be preserved:
Alright, so I'm a little obsessed with what is admittedly my favorite old school Sesame Street animation ever: the four-armed swami counting to 20. But what can I do? To this day, I don't say "Once, doce, trece, catorce" in my head; I sing them. And to a sitar accompaniment.
Once it came back onto YouTube, I started looking at the 1971 animation through grown-up eyes, and I realized it's really quite beautiful. The version above is the cleanest copy I've found to date [The versions linked in previous DT posts have all disappeared from the YouTube, but it's always there; just search for "sesame street guru" or "sesame street swami." It's also included on Disc 2 of the Sesame Street Old School, Vol 1 DVD.]
I find it kind of maddening and borderline irresponsible that Children's Television Workshop, aka Sesame Workshop doesn't do more for their legacy and the artists who helped create such memorable elements of our culture.
There's not even a definitive title and production credit published for the swami clip, for example. So here's what I've pieced together from various message boards and comment threads. What follows is either fascinating or a complete waste of time, depending:
"Sesame Street Swami" debuted November 8, 1971 in Episode 276, the first show in the 'Street's third season, in both English and Spanish. The version above, posted by YouTube user turkeytv, is the only one to mention a title, "Mystic Twenty."
Music
A commenter on this version, gives the music credits:
Jeannie Piersol -Vocals
Darby Slick - Guitar
Peter van Gelder -Sitar
The three were supposedly in The Great Society together, a seminal Haight Ashbury band, but that makes no sense, because The Great Society was founded in 1965 by Darby Slick's brother Jerry and Jerry's wife Grace, and only lasted like a year before Grace jumped to Jefferson Airplane. Van Gelder was a student of the great Ali Akbar Khan and one of the pioneers of introducing sitar music to the west. I should say "is," not "was"; van Gelder's still kickin' it Indian school in Sonoma.
But wait, in Craig Fenton's 2006 fan bible, Take Me to a Circus Tent: The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual, Jerry Slick talked about producing "Jazzy Spies" in November 1969, the classic Sesame Street counting series which, of course, includes his then-famous-and-estranged wife Grace Slicks' voiceover. Then he added this:

Though she's called Jeannie here, the other mentions on Fenton's book are to Jennie Piersol.

An animation thread on Muppetcentral.com says "Jeff [sic] and Darby Slick" produced the four-armed guru segment, and that Darby wrote the music.
Animation
That same 2003 thread credits the swami animation to the San Francisco-based studio that produced so many iconic shorts for Sesame Street, Electric Company and other shows, Imagination, Inc., owned by Jeffrey Hale. Imagination, Inc. also did "Jazzy Spies" and "Pinball Number Count."

Sesame Street Swami - 3
The designs of this body of Imagination, Inc. animation are awesome and would make incredible murals in a nursery. Or bedding, even. I don't know. But just imagine a wall filled with the swami morphed into flowers, or with the trippy backgrounds from the numbers, or maybe with a crisply redrawn black and white counting contraption. Are Sesame's licensing execs asleep at the wheel?
After several years on the farthest back burner I've got, I thought I had a breakthrough last night when Jonathan Hoefler linked to the NY Public Library's digital gallery. There I found an 1868 lithograph design portfolio called The grammar of ornament : illustrated by examples from various styles of ornament, one hundred and twelve plates. There are no exact matches, but the Egyptian, Persian, and [duh] Indian patterns are remarkably similar to the ones in the swami animation. I expect the designs Imagination, Inc. used will turn up in a similar 19th c. pattern book somewhere.
nypl_ornament_egypt.jpg

So I grabbed all the swami backgrounds and posted them to flickr in the hopes that someone will eventually be able to identify the original source of the designs. If you have any 19th century ornament portfolios, I hope you'll check them for psychedelic hippie inspiration.
Sesame Street Counting Swami backgrounds photoset [daddytypes flickr stream]
posted October 17, 2008 1:10 AM | add to del.icio.us | digg this |


Never saw that one. Nor did I see the spoiler contents until I quoted your post. Nice work! fascinating stuff. :)
 
Ok listen up guys

Hear me out:

* Dino Riders, but with humans instead of dinos

Okay that's all guys
 
Lots to say about this festival where I'm at, but it all comes down to the line up just being poor, by far the worst line up in the 7 years I've been here. It's key. So many gaps, OK but unworkable. Downfall of a staple festival (it's been coming for years sadly).

At least I scored some wins by losing my ketamine and trading all my mephedrone for 1 2C-B pill. Say no to miserable guys
;)
 
Show was so epic man, like completely mind-blowing me and my girlfriend had such great time. They played so many of my favorites... Franklin's Tower, Uncle John's Band, Scarlet Begonias, Ramble on Rose, Playing in the Band, Deal, Truckin, St. Stephen and many others. They even covered Hey Jude and All Along the Watchtower those were really good, the crowd went nutz. Just got home in bed now and it's 2:20am I'm gonna be a dishrag at work tommorow most likely but it was totally worth it. Really hope Dead and Company tours again next year this was the most fun I've had in awhile.

Love you guys ❤️
 
What venue was that, Charlie? Not a god Dead fan myself, but I did check out Further one time from outside the fence. Watched some people doing finger dips of molly or whatever it was. And then people knocked over the fence and most of them ran into the concert as a mob so security couldn’t stop them all. Pretty rambunctious crowd
 
What venue was that, Charlie? Not a god Dead fan myself, but I did check out Further one time from outside the fence. Watched some people doing finger dips of molly or whatever it was. And then people knocked over the fence and most of them ran into the concert as a mob so security couldn’t stop them all. Pretty rambunctious crowd

They busted through a gate last night to just so they didn't have to wait in line to get to where you walked in with your tickets, lol. It was at Citi Field which was really great place for the show it was really easy to get out after and back to North Jersey. Brother when I was in the lot doing all that Nitrous and listening to music it was some next level shit. At one point I did these two massive balloons back to back quick as hell and I was totally out there Wah Wah Wah, pure Euphoria. Actually gonna buy a cracker, balloons and some cartridges this week that will be a great loophole for my passes.

Me and my girl are gonna park where we usually hook-up and do some balloons through out the night each week. She is always on delta-8-THC edibles I buy her now and said the combo with the smoked flower was amazing. When she was in the zone from the N2O she looked so blasted/beautiful. I hadn't done nitrous in years at that point and forgot how fun it is. Had this one like breakthru moment when I started to damn near have that OBE, I go through the balloons quick like massive lung fulls and hold that shit in.

When I get around to doing some of that 2C-B I'm gonna knock off cartridges throughout the trip I bet it will make the come-up a breeze. We had such a good time she is the biggest Dead Head I ever met and that is saying alot she has seen them in some incarnation since the 90s when Jerry was still around, she is my other half and we already talk about getting married. I'm so in love with her and we have so much in common, I'm the luckiest dude ever.
 
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I’m jealous dude, I saw the set list. It looked phenomenal. That was the only St Stephen they played all tour, what a treat. The 2nd set in general looks just about perfect.
Glad you went and had a good time. This is the 3rd year in a row I’ve missed a summer dead show since i started going 20 years ago. (Tho I did see Bobby right before summer tour started) Last year my gf was pregnant, this year we have a newborn and 2020 had no concerts. I miss it a lot and hoping they’ll be back again next year.
 
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Just buy a whip cream dispenser. The individual crackers suck, the whip cream ones are like 100 times better. Though that cracker looks better than the one I used to have since it has rubber guards to protect your hands from when it flash freezes when it exits the nitrous canister.

Like this:

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We played a good show last night, it was fun. We all realized that although we were upset to lose our old drummer (he played with us last night though because it wasn't too far away and our new drummer couldn't make it - he'll be playing some shows with us for this reason, moving forward), the shows have actually been better with him, because he listens better and lets us lead. Whereas the old drummer often takes the lead and frequently gets bored or something when we get quiet and almost immediately pushes it back into full steam, loud and bombastic. We were trying a new thing, to get audience participation with a call and response, in one of our songs, in a part where we drop down and go a capella vocals which we have been extending for a couple of minutes. Right when the crowd was about to start, right after the bass player finished explaining what to do, the drummer decided it was time to push us into the part where it re-peaks with a guitar solo and an organ drop. It was very strange.

We're going bac to the same place next weekend, and then again in August. After the show, a guy who had been making eye contact with me a lot came to talk to me, and heaped on the praise, then we talked about our lives and all sorts of stuff, and then he said he has a house and he offers bands the use of it when they come through and don't have a place to stay, so I think we're going to hit him up and stay at his place next time, which should be cool, I liked him, he was nice.
 
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