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"Music is the Drug" - I call B.S. (pg. 5)
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| dream_logic |
| quote: | Originally posted by MERTON
i say music and video games!! the only drug i need is some alergy pills and some effexor (prescribed to keep my anxiety down... i can be nervous in unfamiliar situations) and i'm set!!! none of that bad crap for me:D |
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| Slylee |
| OTC drugs are the 13th step according to dennis leary:happy2: |
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| occrider |
| MisterOpus used to create threads in the COR? Party Princess was around back then? Astonishing ... |
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| infinity HiGH |
| This thread is pretty old-school. |
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| Geoff |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shudder
too lazy to read.... :( |
+1
i enjoy music just fine without drugs |
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| Sunsnail |
| i like music :toothless |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Geoff
+1
i enjoy music just fine without drugs |
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I think good music has it's addictive properties -- every now and then there are tracks or mixes you just can't get enough of. But even then, they wear out after a while and you move on to something else. I don't buy that music is a drug, no matter what the track or environment. But I also don't think you need drugs to appreciate music.
I think music may heighten the drug experience, but I don't think drugs heighten the music experience. |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by electric_soul
omfg, you just described myself. My day lasts 36 hours, is not that I want to, but its.. i'm not sleepy after 18 hours but after 30 :D. First months @ any job has always being HELL. They either fire me after a couple months (from their point of view I oversleep once every 2 days :stongue: ), or acknowledge my work and just let me be after a little whining (my current job went this way).
About thread:
I've read somewhere (could even be here on TA), that as our muscles are stretched from one end to the other of the bones, they're kinda sensitive to sounds (any guitar/bass player knows that strings vibrate because of the sound, actually anyone that is into instruments/music)
I've just tried cannabis, and as some of you may know your synesthesia gets increased due to the slower synapsis. (or perhaps you pay more atention to your senses, and think less about things making it seem like "feeling more", not sure, not the point anyway).
So when you feel the music, that's true. Your muscles are reacting to the vibes :p
Maybe some ppl just get addicted to muscle reaction to sounds, and of course, drugs enhance that. |
Hmm, very innovative first paragraph, I shall write that down. :D
This may be a bit weird but maybe others have experienced this as well? Maybe I'm very prone to sensitivity, but even with a warm wave of air (if im outside or sitting by the fireplace) will create this numbing chill for about 5 seconds, or if all the windows are down in a car and a breeze hits my face in the right spot.This happens to me all the time. Even after a sneeze. I've watched overs sneeze. I know its been proven that the same stem of brain that triggers orgasm is the same stem as a sneeze. Well, my sneezes afterwards are overwhelming. I get that tingling chill for a long amount of time and you can see it in my face. Others have asked what is wrong with me? I dont see sneezes affecting others such as myself. When I hear a line of a poem, when someone is explaining to me very enthusiastically of Quantum Physics or even when someone says something that I feel I need to write down or I can imagine myself at a rave dancing in this huge mass of sweaty bodies and get chills. When listening to Second Sun - Empire, I can feel the chills start to develope around the tips of my ears and travel throughout my body into my toes. I become sort of euphorically paralyzed in my car. If this is how E feels, then I know I'm not missing out. I've already done it 5 times a day and then some. So now, I'm on this quest to try and "control" these overwhelming chills. I want to be able to bring them on demand and sustain this feeling for as long as it is attainable. Does anyone else have ANY idea what I'm talking about ? WHy AM I SO LUCKY? Am I God's favorite child, therefore receiving this blessing? :D
NO?
feck it. I'll finish off with...
Jiffy Lube Oil Filter |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
I never understood anyone who wears this statement on their sleeve as if they are a clean-cut kid in a not so clean-cut environment.
"Man, the music is all the drugs I need, man!"
Well I guess for some people who claim this to me, I'm kinda glad they no longer use drugs. To be sure, their brains are slowly leaking out their ears from all the abuse in the past, and certainly abstaining from their drug of choice merely slows but doesn't halt the leakage. But for others, I'm sorry, but you really are being shortsighted here. Music and drugs have gone hand in hand for ages. It's the way things were before the modern dance scene, and it certainly will be the way for years to come. It's been this way for every music genre known. Rock, classical, jazz, pop, hell even some Christian musicians admitted as much. Choosing to ignore this reality does not in any way make it false.
I'd personally be lying to myself if I didn't admit that whenever I hear a good mix in my car, that I don't envision being all twisted in a club feeling high as a kite while dancing my ass off. To be blunt, anyone that has been twisted at least once most certainly has that nostalgic feeling. Even on those bad nights when things don't seem to be working right, you eventually look past it and remember those great roller coaster rides. That's sad. That's the addiction. Not to just the drugs, but to the music and drugs together. I don't say all this because I read a few of Sean Cusick's articles on the subject (from which he admits the same), I say it because it's bothersome. It's bothersome to love something so beautiful as that which I hear everyday to be connected to something that I wish I hadn't ever put into my body.
Of course, there are those exceptional few who still abstain. From me to you, congrats. Then of course you have those who claim they no longer do drugs, but just get completely blasted from alcohol now. These folks I think I love the most, at least their logic I love. I think I fell into this category this year myself, which is why I love this logic - it was my own, and it was quite illogical. Putting my wife's car accident 7 weeks ago aside, I can't remember a time on which I was so stupid in my life. I think that I have said and done smarter things when I was 7 and experimented with pyromania, which nearly resulted in burning my house down, than when I attempted to justify to myself that I could still go out and abstain from drugs by simply drinking more alcohol. You see that guy with the letters "dumbass" written across his forehead? Yeah, that was me.
So what's the moral of this idiotic story? F$ck if I know. I guess it's just my frustration from that wanker candykid dweeb last night I ran into that attempted so desperately to convince me that the music was all he needed. Our 10 minute conversation, if that's what you want to call it - it was mostly him talking a mile a minute trying to convince me otherwise, nearly ended with a harsh bitchslap on my part. But I held myself back and allowed the fool with the Powerpuff-all-pupil eyeballs and an itchy, runny nose to elaborate to me in his denial. Of course his bullet dropped onto the dancefloor as well, but I pretended not to notice with due courtesy as he slyly looked around, scooped it up, and ran out the back door. Perhaps he thought I was a narc or something. Perhaps I could have pointed out to him the people I knew there who were narcs, just to make him feel better. But I ignored him and left the bar after drinking a Bud Light and a club soda.
Simply put, I'm becoming more jaded than ever. I love the music, and that will never change. But the rest I could easily flush down the toilet without hesitation. Perhaps one day I will do myself and everyone else a favor and learn to dissociate the music from the drugs, but not now. It's like believin' Snoop Dog had stopped smokin' doob - It's impossible. Time will tell.
Damn I'm feeling bitter. I need more sleep. |
Pass along the bottle of Opus and I'll be forever here to listen to your bitter vents. ;) |
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| isoterra |
| quote: | | am a firm believer that taking drugs (including alcohol) to escape or severely distort reality is always the intent...people do them because their reality is obviously boring |
so yeah this quote may be 2 years old but nonetheless.. disagree with it. might be true for something like ket, or acid etc.. but pills don't distort reality at all for me.. just make me feel happy, energised, awake & more in touch with positive emotions.. haven't ever felt spaced out at all on them & certainly wouldn't take them to improve a night that would otherwise be 'boring' |
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| TheVrk |
PvD - For an Angel STILL acts as a drug to me....
But music on the whole is not.... |
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| smokeape |
| quote: | Originally posted by MisterOpus1
I never understood anyone who wears this statement on their sleeve as if they are a clean-cut kid in a not so clean-cut environment.
"Man, the music is all the drugs I need, man!"
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This from another old fart. I listen to music practically all day long and crave the Trance bump. But music only with no drugs at all?? Pshaw...B.S agreed... I'm down to alcohol as weapon of choice these days, and got to be careful even there as well. Damn near got a DUI the other day, if not for the goodness of the cop that pulled me and called my wife instead of putting me in jail.
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Andy Moor ft ft Lianne Brookson - No More |
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