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i think i saw jesse ray nailing a doobie behind the
sip and park! he had a large hat on so im not total sure. no wait the kid also
had a 4 string zon! i did see jesse chewing tobaco once though.
jg
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:16
PM
Subject: Re: why pot before
looping?
Only drug users defend using drugs. All drugs are a
cop-out. It may take one years
to figure it out, but I have never watched
a drug user who continues to use drugs do
anything with his/her life. I
have only watched countless, and I mean countless,
musicians who spent
(and still spend) all of their energy buying kine bud, getting
high
morning, noon, and night, forget gig dates, forget phonenumbers, forget
key
changes, forget their ass, hook the outputs out of the inputs, forget
how to route a
VST wrapper, play their basses drenched in reverb and
delays thinking it sounds
cool, stop after setting up a TON of equipment to
go get stoned and come back
and 'noid out in front of their gear, choke
when speaking to the audience...the list
goes on. All of my former band
members use(d) pot in excess and will defend it
more loquaciously than
anything I have read here are still only successes in their
own personal
hall of fame. As a matter of fact, my former drummer has a
horrendous
smokers hack and he aint smokin' cigarettes. All pot users will
voice their opinions
in favor of pot exactly like the denizens of the Isle
of the Lotos Eaters. It's the same
predictable, self-serving, stoner
bullshit that I have heard for years. I'm through
writing about pot. It's a
trap. Give it up if you use it and rejoin your human mind.
The psychedelic
thing is really something else. Psylocibin fungus on your neurons.
Big
deal. So you join the fungus phylum for a while and realize "wow, this is a
planet." Yep. It's a planet. Okay, now what?
Cocaine? Pure craziness and a
capitalists wet dream.
Heroin. More madness.
LSD? Okay, so
maybe--maybe--if you're lucky, you get some real LSD and pitch
a no-hitter.
So what. It isn't you. It is you on the drug. Once is cool, but like
anything,
you get hooked and can't perform without it and you are a great
big fake.
Musicians who can only perform high:
Any repeated
behavior results ina refined performance. So if you are a musician
who repeats behaviors while stoned, then you will learn and only be able
to reliably
replicate these behaviors while stoned. It is a trap that the
body has created for
itself. The only way out is to quit and relearn.
That's it. Disagree all you want, but it's all in order to vehemently defend a
crutch.
Recreational drug use is for cheaters.
Now, I highly doubt
anyone reading this is a shaman or some other bonafide mystic,
otherwise
you'd not be bothering with internets and mailing lists and
musical
equipment, but rather be preparing a medicine bag with animal bones
or divining water
with a stick or whatever a true shaman does. I believe
that the sacred substances
of this planet belong to them and to them alone.
All these kids driving around in
Mustangs, smoking pot, going to class and
staring vacant eyed at me (yes, I'm a
teacher and I see firsthand just how
fucked up people are who use drugs, how
self-deluded and seduced by their
peer structure and support system and the whole
hunter/gathering routine)
are plugging up the psychic ether for the rest of earnest
people who would
rather meditate and get to know the wonders of the universe
without a
barrage of confusion and sloppy intention. They can't retain and can't
learn.
I have not had one kid who supported pot do better than ones who do
not. Period. The pot users always give themselves away, at least in my
classes. It is so easy to manipulate a discussion in order to discover who
favors pot. It's hilarious. And the ones who obviously have never seen it or
are still so innocent that they haven't tried simply do naturally better at
everything: their memory works, they are present, on time, alert, etc.
I'm
through. I can't convince anyone to stop. All I can say is there is
no
valid rationalization an active drug user can offer in defense of his or
her self-
destructive, mind-altering blackhole of a habit. None. John
Lilly, Terrence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Poe, Hunter S., that
freak Crowley, or the countelss
musicians who have used drugs could have
done so much more without. The body
degenerates all by itself. A few doors
opened by drug use is fine. Sustained and
persistent use is a trap. I am
telling you, read Isle...
Now those who have bothered to read this
entire message will hopefully discern a
distinction between active,
defensive drug users and those who have dived deep
into the thickest of
it, seen far-out (man) and wildly neurotic/exotic places and have come back
only to realize..."fuck...that was cool but it can't last." Because, my
good brothers, one has to come to realize that any drug dependency is a
trap.
Dependency is a trap. The best kind, perhaps...but a trap
nonetheless.
Amen.
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