Industry Tape

"i acquired this tape before the turn of the century at a rave in houston, texas. the recording features the two biggest 2nd gen chicago house djs playing a 2x4 tag team vinyl set on psilocybin." (DJ Harry Bennett)

Live @ Industry with Derrick Carter on 4 decks by dj sneak

Chappaqua

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,

Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I'm interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.

Sandoz labcoat

"I like listening to music tripping, cos it's the only way I can get out of that musician mentality where you're thinking about how it's constructed, what equipment they're using. You just feel like a sad bastard when you do that, and the only way to turn that off and to stop taking it apart is to be totally off your head." (Richard D. James)

Drunk vs. Stoned

According to the press release, "Drunk and stoned can be seen as metaphors for two different approaches to making art."

The stoned sensibility is easily fixated, fascinated, or surprised. Stoned meanders, fills in space with small or repeating marks and gestures, or gets super-focused. It loves spirals, circles, and patterns, bright colors and endlessly embellished areas. It's located more in the fingers than the arm; the eyes, not the gut. While it's physically tingly, it's also very out-of-body. Stoned is prone to being anal-retentive.

The drunk sensibility is more outward, uninhibited, turbulent, impulsive, and clownish. It's romantic, occasionally morose, likes to share feelings, and isn't afraid of sloppy emotions. Globally speaking, Europe is more drunken than the United States, which had been drunk in the early 1980s, sobered up in the '90s, but may be flirting with getting stoned again. Asia and South America seem stoned to me. Africa, as Okwui Enwezor said, is "psychotic." (Jerry Saltz)


Tyson Reeder, Serpent 2003

I will walk in the city over the course of seven days, under the influence of a different drug each day. My trip will be recorded through photographs, notes, and any other media that become relevant.


May 5 ... Spirits (1)
May 6 ... Hashish (2)
May 7 ... Speed (3)
May 8 ... Heroin (4)
May 9 ... Cocaine (5)
May 10 ... Valium (6)
May 11 ... Ecstasy (7)

(4) Feeling of inner warmth which helps me break the ice and feel attuned to the place. A sequence of frozen images as I walk along the danube. The effects fade fast, but they return at the end of the day. Difficulty breathing at night.

(7) Visual brightening and erotic impulses. My shoes move and I feel the urge to walk out. Everything I turn to moves, not physically but conceptually. I feel like the epicenter of the world.

(Francis Alÿs)

a higher insight

In the Chronik zu seinem Leben contained in the Kritische Studienausgabe, we read about the devastating effects the relationship to Lou Salome had on Nietzsche: "In December, the crisis in the relationship to Lou and Rée becomes more acute. The specifics of this crisis have only spotty documentation. Suicidal thoughts. The abuse of narcotics." Nietzsche's draft letter from Rapallo dated December 20, 1882 confirms this observation as it enacts the masochistic, destructive drama that was unfolding: "Tonight I will take so much opium that I will lose all reason," and then arrives at a "higher insight" in his relationship to Lou by way of an enormous dosage of opium taken "out of desperation."

on theatre

"This day I had strong and elevated feelings again, and if I could have music and art, I know very well what music and art I would not like to have, namely, the kind that tries to intoxicate its audience and drive it to the height of a moment of strong and elevated feelings...

What would those people know of 'higher moods' were there no intoxicating substances and whip-lashes of ideals! - and so they have their inspirers as they have their wines. But what is their drink and their drunkenness to me! What is wine to the inspired! He looks instead with a sort of disgust at the means and the mediators that are supposed to produce an effect without sufficient reason - aping the high tide of the soul!...

What do the Fausts and Manfreds of the theatre matter to someone who is himself like Faust and Manfred? - whereas the fact that such figures are brought about on stage is certainly something for him to think about. The strongest thoughts and passions are therefore presented before those who are capable not of thought and passion - but of intoxication! And the former as a means to the latter! And theatre and music as the hashish-smoking and betel-chewing of the European! Oh, who will tell us the entire history of narcotics? -It is nearly the history of 'culture,' our so-called higher culture!" (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Andrew Auernheimer, 24, also known in the hacker community as Escher and Weev, has been arrested for posession of cocaine, LSD and ecstasy after the execution of a search warrant at his Arkansas apartment by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is a member of Goatse Security, the hacker group that exposed the security flaw that allowed iPad users' information to be pulled from the AT&T web site. Auernheimer was charged with four felony charges of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor charge.

The FBI detected the drugs while executing a search warrant at Auernheimer's apartment related to a security breach on an AT&T (NYSE:T) Web application that enabled hackers to obtain around 114,000 e-mail addresses of Apple(NSDQ:AAPL) iPad 3G customers. Some of the affected iPad customers included high-profile executives, military personnel and politicians, including New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

http://weev.livejournal.com/

"Addicts are," he said with finality, "as boring a bunch of people as I ever encountered. They've got this one track mind." I recall being told that they sat and stared at T.V. for hours. Burroughs sighed, "That they do. Billie Holiday said that she knew she was cured when she stopped looking at T.V."

Richard Evans Schultes' name came up. Burroughs said, "Know him well. We took a trip to South America together. He has a definite disagreement with the attempt to eradicate cocaine there. He says that it doesn't hurt them at all. That's what Dick Schultes says. I think it must cut off the circulation in the gums. That's what does it. Teeth fall out. It's a disgusting habit, I think. Just physically. I tried it. All it did is freeze up my mouth. No systemic effect. It seems like a waste of time to me." (William S. Burroughs, 1978)

trip to Australia

Conservative British politician Jonathan Aitken's mother was constantly at his side. When he took LSD to write up the experiment for the Evening Standard, she was there to record his hallucinations: "He had the most vivid and terrible dreams... he thought he was in Australia, he could see the future and there were just seas of blood. Black men fighting brown men, fighting yellow men." she recalled.

"This drug needs police, the Home Office and a dictator to stamp it out,' he asserted, while wondering aloud: 'Where is my mother, the only symbol of sanity I know in this diseased world..."

Was that a vision? What happened to me?

"Had a transcendental storm of colour visions today in the bus going to Marseilles. We ran though a long avenue of trees and I close my eyes against the setting sun. An overwhelming flood of intensely bright colours exploded behind my eyelids: a multi-dimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space. I was swept out of time. I was out in a world of infinite number. The vision stopped abruptly as we left the trees. Was that a vision? What happened to me?" (Brion Gysin, 1958)

The controlled-experiment people felt that public LSD orgies would lead to disaster for their own research. There was little optimism about what might happen when the Angels—worshipping violence, rape and swastikas—found themselves in a crowd of intellectual hipsters, Marxist radicals and pacifist peace marchers. (Hunter S. Thompson)

Dropping acid with the Angels was an adventure; they were too ignorant to know what to expect, and too wild to care. They just swallowed the stuff and hung on... (Hunter S. Thompson)

Poor Man's Acid

"The canvas depicts the titular deities lounging in a meadow. Venus looks forward while Mars lies beside her, apparently asleep...Recently, however, art historian David Bellingham came to a different conclusion. He noticed that Botticelli painted a fruit in the bottom right-hand corner of his canvas that looks a lot like datura stramonium, a plant that's also known as 'poor man's acid.'"

Berlin Acid War

The Terrorist Wore Versace

"We found injections containing traces of cocaine and LSD left behind by the terrorists and later found drugs in their blood. There was also evidence of steroids, which isn't uncommon in terrorists.

"These men were all toned, suggesting they had been doing some heavy training for the attacks. This explains why they managed to battle the commandos for over 50 hours with no food or sleep."

The Vomiter

The Acid Head War

“About the present state of England he imagined he had no illusions. When the Acid Head War broke out, undeclared, Kuwait had struck at all the prosperous countries. Britain had been the first to suffer the PCA bomb - Psycho-Chemical Aerosols that propagated psychomimetic states, twilight ruptured its dark cities. As a nunsacs official, he could guess the disorder he would find there." (Brian Aldiss, Barefoot in the Head)

Ichthyoallyeinotoxism, or hallucinogenic fish poisoning, is caused by eating the heads or body parts of certain species of herbivorous fish and has previously only been recorded from the Indo Pacific. The effects of eating ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as certain mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish, are believed to be similar to LSD, and may include vivid and terrifying auditory and visual hallucinations. This has given rise to the collective common name for ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes of "dream fish".

Relax and enjoy the ride

"I got asked to DJ at a friend’s party in Berlin. It was an 8 hour long event and liquid LSD was supplied. Because of the length of my set I needed to bring a lot of records and so I ended up bringing things from many different genres... Having taken a fair quantity of the drug myself I was open to a whole new approach to DJing, one that integrated all of my musical interests into a new cohesive whole, that again, had a narrative.

“My experience during the acid party moved me deeply and although I left it knowing I could never touch the drug again, I also carried with me this new sense about DJing, about working with recorded music, and about creating improvisational narratives with it... Plus I like dancing, both as a spectator and a participant. It uplifts my spirit." (Gavin Russom)

Black Meteoric Star, "Dawn"

American Alchemist

"There are no casual experiments."

Madame Bovary

“Emma Bovary was apparently a grand self-medicator. Like others before her, she experienced the dangers of a belle ame: raptures that cut her off from reality, hallucinated plenitude and pure communication, a kind of hinge on transcendental telepathy. Everything she tried out – religion, reading, love rushes, getting dressed in the morning, had hallucinogenic, analgesic, stimulating, or euphorizing effects upon her. She would also experience tremendous crashes. The peak of drugs, as of love, was for her telepathy, a communication over distance….Shit was happening. God’s fundamental breakdown, His out-of-serviceness and withdrawal from the scene, meant she had to replace the emptiness with a symbolic authority. That’s when the panic set in, the emergencies that invaded the entire scene. Nothing else mattered; she needed her dose, and she started responding like an addict to the alarm signals proliferating around her, She didn’t care what she took.”

okacid

R.E. Schultes on hallucinogenic plants

Part one


Part two

Harvard hallucinogens

the appeal of peyote

Peyote Ritual 1957

Kiowa Peyote Meeting 1973

The Yellow Hammers

the witches of pandora

"He told her he hadn't had sex for 20 years. When she later worried she might have gotten pregnant (they'd used no birth control), Castaneda leapt from the bed, shouting, "Me make you pregnant? Impossible! The nagual's sperm isn't human ... Don't let any of the nagual's sperm out, nena. It will burn away your humanness."

Ketamine

innocence and divine beauty

more important than reading the Bible six times

I haven't seen color. I live in a monochromatic world

Intermediate state between consciousness and matter

Nervous Xians/The Devil Does Drugs

"at one point i had the twelve inch but i actually traded it to charka d in lubbock for a ten strip of lsd probably around age 17. as i recall it was before i went to student government camp and i took 5 hits and tripped for 2 days." (DJ Harry Bennett)