Jesus Christ! It's thundering something fierce outside. Just because I forgot to sacrifice the bloody goat last night...
Pip Fistybum: Oi roight, ewe've been 'anging round the wrong arears... issnot a place for bloody goats, it's a place for fisting bums!
Wow, I haven't heard someone say that to me in a while. Good times!
So after Altered State, I read Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into Contemporary Shamanism, followed by a hefty dose of paranoia with Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. I'm pretty torn on what to read next. Entheogens and the Future of Religion or Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said?
Not to mention that my current order from Amazon for David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim and Grant Morrison's The Filth have yet to be sent to me. Which is pretty fucking frustrating, considering that they're supposed to be out. However, I think that the TPB has been delayed, which is incredibly frustrating. (On a related note, I'm FINALLY getting everyone addicted to the Invisibles. SCORE.)
So, Breaking Open the Head -- pretty standard ideas of the rise of psychedelics coinciding with the idea that time is speeding up, the need for this sort of psychic connection, etc. However, it's pretty neat because it's told from the point of view of a Manhattan journalist (Joyce Johnson's son, awesomely enough) who goes from yayo to yage. Not to mention that he discusses Benjamin's ideas pretty extensively, although I don't know if he actually makes a case for Benjamin's experiences with mescaline directly affecting certain passages/ideas that he quotes.
And 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' was, as one would think, excellent. It's very quickly paced -- the introduction (by Roger Zelany, fancy) mentioned that this was a one-sitting book, and indeed it was. My ass was pleasantly sore after THAT psychological reaming.
Is this entry boring because I'm only talking about books? It's almost as though I'm regressing to a state where I'm only happy receiving text-based information. Ohhh snap! The hand, it wants to engage in conversation...
Pip Fistybum: Oi roight, ewe've been 'anging round the wrong arears... issnot a place for bloody goats, it's a place for fisting bums!
Wow, I haven't heard someone say that to me in a while. Good times!
So after Altered State, I read Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into Contemporary Shamanism, followed by a hefty dose of paranoia with Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. I'm pretty torn on what to read next. Entheogens and the Future of Religion or Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said?
Not to mention that my current order from Amazon for David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim and Grant Morrison's The Filth have yet to be sent to me. Which is pretty fucking frustrating, considering that they're supposed to be out. However, I think that the TPB has been delayed, which is incredibly frustrating. (On a related note, I'm FINALLY getting everyone addicted to the Invisibles. SCORE.)
So, Breaking Open the Head -- pretty standard ideas of the rise of psychedelics coinciding with the idea that time is speeding up, the need for this sort of psychic connection, etc. However, it's pretty neat because it's told from the point of view of a Manhattan journalist (Joyce Johnson's son, awesomely enough) who goes from yayo to yage. Not to mention that he discusses Benjamin's ideas pretty extensively, although I don't know if he actually makes a case for Benjamin's experiences with mescaline directly affecting certain passages/ideas that he quotes.
And 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' was, as one would think, excellent. It's very quickly paced -- the introduction (by Roger Zelany, fancy) mentioned that this was a one-sitting book, and indeed it was. My ass was pleasantly sore after THAT psychological reaming.
Is this entry boring because I'm only talking about books? It's almost as though I'm regressing to a state where I'm only happy receiving text-based information. Ohhh snap! The hand, it wants to engage in conversation...
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i like your pics too. you are quite beautifull.
breaking open the head sounds good. good enough that i want to read it next. and no this isnt a boring entry i like to read way too much and you seem to have good reccomendations.keepum coming.
its thundering somthing fierce out here too should i do the goat thing too?