Broskirose

Oh don't worry, I've learned a lot. Like for example - if you see creepy old men who upload pictures of their overly-pale selves whilst covering their face with one hand to the internet, don't engage that person in conversation....ever.

Keep it DOOMY motherfucker!!!!!!

Yeah man, you really got us.

Smoooooke on the waaaaaterrr!

I'm getting tired of LARP-playing, dad-rock-listening virgins who continuously label people with an urban/street fashion style and a good sense of music as "hipsters".

here here

That would be "hear, hear" you dumbass.

As in "hear me, hear me"...

I'm getting tired of LARP-playing, dad-rock-listening virgins who continuously label people with an urban/street fashion style and a good sense of music as "hipsters".

here here

I know a hipster who can't grow a beard. It's very sad.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ ABOUT NATE'S JOURNEY ON LSD I RECCOMEND

1. This Thread

2. This Journal:

By Nate

Like most of my peers in the beginning of high school, I was taught the dangers of drugs, mostly the commonly abused substances such as alcohol and marijuana. I was easily persuaded and took my vow to never use substances, but that never lasted. I started smoking marijuana habitually at the end of senior year to help reduce Paxil withdrawals.

During freshman year of college I started to gain an interest in Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, The Doors and the whole 60s counterculture. By this time I was smoking almost every day and was interested in Timothy Leary, Albert Hoffman and psychedelics. I also started to question life, religion and the subject of personality and psychology.

I soon learned that these subjects greatly determine the outcome and experience of a psychedelic trip.

This summer, starting around June 2011, I found some LSD and have tripped several times, but nothing compares to the experience I had two days ago. I was accustomed to great experiences and downplayed the possibility of a bad trip, but I soon learned that they are possible.

The trip started when I was invited to a friends house party. I took one pill of Bupropion SR, an antidepressant, and chewed and swallowed a tab and a half of LSD at 7:30 PM (I tripped for roughly 7 to 8 off of just half a hit other times), about an hour later my perception just went mad.

At roughly 8:45 when four of my friends were playing Beer Pong I was in full swing. I became tingly, cold, jittery, and absolutely in my own world. The other people I was with never experienced with LSD so I warned them that there was a chance I would become secluded and weird because this was the most I have ever taken. Well I walked around the house with a plastic cup madly chewing on a straw and a neon green blanket over me to keep me warm. I remember specifically I was very interested at the pong table and the water droplets that were lying there. At first the water droplets just grew larger and shrunk at an even pace, but then my perception could see the darkened color pattern on the table and it rippled out of control. It was probably most comparable to seeing a lake on a ping-pong table rippling with waves to the sober mind. During this time I was also interested in a picture with a movie reel. The movie reel started spinning like you would see at an old fashioned movie show, and the letters started to bold, italicize, shrink, grow larger and move.

At around 9:15 PM, the carpet began to wave up and down and the fabric started to shrink and grow. They resembled little white worms moving around. I began to freak out. My teeth started chattering, my heart started pounding, and I felt overly high. I thought I took to much and I knew I had to work the next day so I began running around the house rambling about how much I took and how I would never take this stuff again. The other people started to think I was nuts, and rightfully so, so then I was escorted upstairs into a separate bedroom to calm down.

In the bedroom I was still freaking out. By this point there were probably no less than thirty people in the house, and to make it clear it is probably not smart to be the only person on acid in a house party where everyone else is drunk out of their mind. So I lay in bed feeling a little sick and to be honest, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I felt trapped and drifting towards death, but there was nothing I could do but sit there and look around the room. The blue flowery patterns on the bed started to rotate, the specs on the ceiling seemed to come together to make patterns and grow large as if they were going to fall on me, the bedroom fan had propellers that started to curl down towards me, grow, shift into rectangular shapes, and then shrink again. I also thought the police were yelling on speaker phones outside the house and about to crash in and arrest everyone for underage drinking. This was very uncommon because I never heard auditory hallucinations on other trips.

At around 10 PM I calmed down a little bit and just started to enjoy the trip. I remember I had to use the bathroom and I couldnt pee straight. It was hard to walk on this much acid and I was stumbling all over the place. A puddle of urine hit the floor and quickly covered the whole tile as if I flooded the bathroom with my own pee. That kind of freaked me out so I did my best to clean up my mess. I also did this extremely fast because the bathroom window ledge started to jet at me kind of threateningly. So then I went back to bed and stare at the ceiling a bit more.

At around 10:15 PM two girls came into my room and asked what I was doing by myself. They had been drinking but still good enough to have a good solid conversation. One was definitely into me at that point, climbed onto the bed and started patting my stomach. I told her I was on acid and she was sympathetic about it and told me I shouldnt do that to myself. After a while it was clear she was looking to hook up for the night. I was kind of disappointed, not because I didnt want sex, but because I was on acid. Let me be clear that it is impossible to have sex on acid. Your sex drive almost shuts down. I was terrified of her and terrified of getting intimate while tripping my balls off. Well eventually some other guy came into the room and blocked us from advancing (or brought me out of the situation, whatever youd want to put it), so I let them talk and went downstairs to enjoy my trip somewhere else. I was kind of depressed because I am naturally a shy and socially awkward person so this was my chance. I guess Ill have to wait.

At this point, time was irrelevant and distorted. For all I know it could have been midnight when the girls came in, but I remember sitting on a chair in a room by myself and fascinated by a chair on the other side of the room. When sober its just a plain old chair with different colored dots, but while tripping they looked like clocks telling time and ticking, while shrinking and growing larger. I was also excited about the desk near me. The knob on the furniture has a stripe pattern and it looked like it was unscrewing itself from the drawer, and the candle displays were breathing and moving like jellyfish. There was a piece of fuzz lying on the ground and I thought it was a worm crawling towards me so I tried to pick it up and almost talked to it. I also saw what I interpreted was broken and shattered glass on the floor, so when I was barefoot I tried to side step everything because I didnt want my feet to get cut. When I examined it closer it was really just a gummy life-saver.

It is also important to note that you can definitely tell people are hammered. When you are drunk its hard to know that, but on acid youre under the influence but you can think differently than drunken people. It was impossible and very awkward to talk to drunken people. I kept to my own business. A friend was nice enough to make me a pizza and offered me some. My stomach was empty but I couldnt eat anything. I was also too jittery to smoke properly so I gave up on that. By this time I could talk normally and carry on a conversation, but I was still stumbling all over the place.

The people at Apple are also legends by those who do LSD. Its beyond amazing. The keys on the iPhone zoom so out towards your eyes that it looks like you are typing your keys in air. The keyboard letters move, shrink, grow larger, darken, glow, and dance around. Also the LCD screen colors flow out of the screen and form and bond with your hand so it looks like your hand and phone are one.

Eventually I caught a ride home. The rest of the night was a blur. I remember that I couldnt sleep so I lay in bed and looked at the pictures around my room grow large and shift and move, and the fan growing larger and taking up space. There comes a point where youre really tired and you want your trip to end so you can sleep, but its impossible. I didnt get any sleep that night, and objects were still off until two the following afternoon. The next day was not enjoyable because I felt burned out, unresponsive and my jaw hurt.

Acid is truly a fascinating drug. I didnt really learn anything about myself on it, but you gain a new perspective on objects because they dont look the same at all. Well they look familiar, but the lines and the patterns distort and transform.

Also remember that its important to be in the right mindset while taking this drug too. If you are quiet, antisocial, withdrawn and depressed like me, it may not be the smartest decision to take a lot of psychedelics. There are studies that have determined that these types of traits may be the onset of schizophrenia. It is a risk that you must be willing to take. There are benefits to LSD though. You will experience a journey that cannot be simulated by movies, television, in books or in every day life. It is an experience that is completely unreal, and somewhat indescribable unless you have the chance to drop. I did say that I was never going to touch LSD again, but that is a lie unless I cant get hands on it again. Its a good experience and Im glad I had the chance to enjoy it. It was a night that I will remember forever, but at the same time, easily forget.

Can I post about modern country music in here?

Sure (god help us all)

It's more a cultural perception than anything else. If Lenny Kravitz came before Lennon, I would have read Bridget Jones Diary and shot Lenny before Are You Gonna Go My Way? Jimi Hendrix is just a guitar player but cultural factor hypnotise us into thinking he's like a god. If you played Dark Fantasy to Lennon in 68 he would have had a sex change to be Kanye but we are like look at Kim's butt. We just aren't impressed by music anymore. We want it free and are more excited by technology. Hipsters are culturally indifferent. They throw pieces of counter counter together to form new identities as a form of terrorism to our cultural oppression.

What kinda jazz you into?

Favorite jazzman is Duke Ellington. Not a very unique opinion, but I love his work and there's just sooo much of it. I really like this one album...I forget what it's called. I think it's had different names over the years but it's just him and a piano and it's one of my favs.

On the newer side of things I really like Joshua Redman.

Can a mod please put a leash on Doom? I think it's time for his nap. We get it. You like Deep Purple. No one cares.

Len, I'm not sure about the New York Dolls thing but it's definitely not them. He's an electronic guy. His latest album from earlier in the year got me into his stuff. It's called Ghettoville.

Flying Lotus is another electronic artist. He dropped a track with Kendrick Lamar last week which I really liked. New album is coming out next month.

Eh, idk. It's just not doing it for me.

Sometimes certain artists take a few tries to work for me, but Animal Collective never seem to get through to me.

I've tried to get into Animal Collective so many times. Just never works. I don't know why.

Btw that Random Access Memories remix is spectacular.

Let's try to keep this to discussion about music. Not repetitive whining.

And lol at Mike saying he'll leave the thread yet proceeding to make like 10 posts. Was just a joke anyways man. Thought the smiley kind of made that obvious. Chillllll.

@Len it's not really about just listening to "new" music. I just used the word hipster because some posters like to use that term to tag anyone who doesn't listen to cockrock. This thread wasn't really meant to be a place of debate but more-so just a place of music sharing, recommendations etc free from people spamming their redundant views on anything that doesn't have a shred-shit solo at the 3 min mark.

Personally I'll listen to anything from any decade. So it's not really about a warcry of "new music is better than old music!". Just acknowledging that there is some cool shit out there and music didn't die the day Slash left GNR.

I agree with you. Very much so in fact. Out of interest, what music do you listen to? Aside from NIN which i know you're a fan of.

Mostly jazz, film scores and electronic/experimental. Some of my current favorites are Flying Lotus, Actress, Timber Timbre, Austra, Mr. Little Jeans, Death Grips, How to Destroy Angels, Purity Ring, Blood Orange. Those are just a handful that came to mind.

I like most genres of music. I'm selective when it comes to metal and rap because the lyrical content can be a major turnoff.

Love Billy Joel, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, etc.

Lol what the fuck. They apparently did an entire remix album of Random Access Memories.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKAYjOmG6w

Diggin on this song quite a bit.

Really dark, chill, with some bluesy vibes

I'm listening to the whole Psychic album right now. This is some really good stuff. The track Golden Arrow was superb.

I'll have to check it out, I've actually only heard that one song by them

It's really good shit man.

Darkside - Psychic

I'll be sure to skip the first half every week, but the second sounds awesome. Looking forward to it.

Let's try to keep this to discussion about music. Not repetitive whining.

And lol at Mike saying he'll leave the thread yet proceeding to make like 10 posts. Was just a joke anyways man. Thought the smiley kind of made that obvious. Chillllll.

@Len it's not really about just listening to "new" music. I just used the word hipster because some posters like to use that term to tag anyone who doesn't listen to cockrock. This thread wasn't really meant to be a place of debate but more-so just a place of music sharing, recommendations etc free from people spamming their redundant views on anything that doesn't have a shred-shit solo at the 3 min mark.

Personally I'll listen to anything from any decade. So it's not really about a warcry of "new music is better than old music!". Just acknowledging that there is some cool shit out there and music didn't die the day Slash left GNR.

Diggin on this song quite a bit.

Really dark, chill, with some bluesy vibes

I'm listening to the whole Psychic album right now. This is some really good stuff. The track Golden Arrow was superb.

Steven Adler

I refuse to be confined to a sanctuary. I will continue to make non-Nobody puts baby in a corner posts in My World and wfa/mikeshit20 will deal with it accordingly.

By all means please do. This wasn't meant as a place of confinement. Just a place where the anti-hipster regime would not enter.

I'd like this to be the one thread on the forum where people who don't listen exclusively to guitar rock can discuss music with each other and talk about new releases they're into without being met with annoying rageposts from people who think that they are "hipsters".

So yeah, it doesn't have to be actual hipster music. Just the broad definition of "hipster" music that some people on this forum use. As in - basically everything besides legacy acts and Wolfmother.

Please keep this thread free of the following:

-dadrock

-age arguments

-Lemmy Kilmister

-classic rock magazine articles

-"talent" arguments

-loltrent

-AIDS

-bandanas

-Mike420

Remember that this a place of sanctuary. Be respectful of each other and make it a positive thread for fans of music.

Does that mean you'll do the same thing and respect other people in their music threads?

If you don't want people posting and being negative in here, hopefully you'll follow your own advice in other people's topics.

No, it doesn't mean that. Because this is a particular thread is for sanctuary from buttrockers and their rage. Like I said, you're more than welcome to make your own thread of sanctuary from young people and hipsters if you'd like.

Diggin on this song quite a bit.

Really dark, chill, with some bluesy vibes

Pretty cool tune man. Thanks for sharing!

Such a tragedy.

Doom, WFA and Zint - don't spam the thread.

I think it's all been going downhill since Scrubs ended.

lol