1/31/13

ACID FOR CATS

Pills

Cult Leaders with Guitars


David Koresh







Charles Manson





Father Yod




1/30/13

acidgram

whateverest

WHATEVEREST from Kristoffer Borgli on Vimeo.

"WHATEVEREST is a documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind a dance tune produced by Todd Terje called "Inspector Norse". "Inspector Norse" is the internet alias of Marius Solem Johansen, a failed musician living in a small town, producing dance videos and drug recipes for YouTube."

"Inspector Norse is a guy on Youtube. He has made hundreds of dance videos. Among all those videos, there was a clip on how to make a drug. A drug he calls the 'Inspector Norse Special.' It was something about legal chemicals, freezing them, all this fancy stuff. I was just so fascinated by this Inspector Norse, so I decided to dedicate my next song to him." - Todd Terje



wild horses


"When Marianne Faithfull slipped into the coma that almost killed her-- the result of taking 150 Tuinals in a hotel room in Australia-- she had a vision that Brian Jones, just six days in the ground, was beckoning her over a cliff. He leapt; at the last minute she decided to stay. When she opened her eyes in a hospital room six days later, Mick said, 'Marianne, we thought we'd lost you.' In that milky voice that was already starting to curdle, the first thing she said to him was, 'Wild horses couldn't drag me away.'"

1/29/13

sympathy

1/23/13

"If my main theme throughout my writing is, "Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?" my secondary theme would be, "Are we all humans?"

Here a machine does not imitate a human being, but instead fakes evidence of a human being, a given human being. Fakery is a topic which absolutely fascinates me; I am convinced that anything can be faked, or anyhow evidence pointing to any given thing. Spurious clues can lead us to believe anything they want us to believe.

There is really no theoretical upper limit to this. Once you have mentally opened the door to reception of the notion of fake, you are ready to think yourself into another kind of reality entirely. It's a trip from which you never return. And, I think, a healthy trip... unless you take it too seriously."


–Philip K. Dick

your old pal Crowy


1/16/13

stoned enough




Q: What film has the most in common with Toilet Paper

Maurizio Cattelan: If you're stoned enough, every film could show its Toilet Paper side. 

[Bullett]

alberto seveso




toilet paper video








toilet paper magazine






1/9/13

'So I said to one of these guys, a horn player, “Jesus, how do you look so good every day?” And he pulled his coat back and reached into his waistcoat pocket and said, “You take one of these, you smoke one of those.” Best bit of advice. He gave me a little white pill, a white cross, and a joint. This is how we do it: you take one of these and you smoke one of these.'
KEITH RICHARDS, LIFE






'Post-acid was the prevailing mood at Redlands on a cold February morning in 1967. Post-acid: everybody arrives back with their feet on the ground, so to speak, and you’ve been with them all day, doing all kinds of nuts things and laughing your head off; you’ve gone for walks on the beach and you’re freezing cold and you’re not wearing any shoes and you’re wondering why you’ve got frostbite.'
KEITH RICHARDS, LIFE






'We had become a pirate nation, moving on a huge scale under our own flag, with lawyers, clowns, attendants.'
KEITH RICHARDS, LIFE


'Cold turkey in paradise, par for the course.'
KEITH RICHARDS, LIFE

'Marlon would not normally have let in any policemen, but they were dressed as waiters.'
KEITH RICHARDS, LIFE





acidgrams






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1/8/13

Have A Killer Time



Have A Killer Time

1/4/13

Acid Ads

Stakker - Eurotechno

Stakker - The Evil Acid Baron Show

"The Evil Acid Baron Show released in 1988 was the first acid house video, created by Stakker, with music by Farley ‘Jackmaster’ Funk, Tyree, Baby Ford, Royal House and S’Express. The first video that I saw was actually the more accomplished Eurotechno, which came out the following year. Eurotechno blew me away when I first saw it at a house night in Cornwall and I went to Woolworths to buy a copy on VHS, which thankfully I still have. The pulsing, ever-changing graphics go perfectly with the futuristic acid soundtrack and is just as fresh as it was then.
Stakker were video artists Mark McClean and Colin Scott. After using other people’s music for their first video, they decided they wanted their follow-up to feature music they had commissioned themselves so that the music could more closely match the visuals. They teamed up with Brian Dougans and together produced the classic track, ‘Humanoid’ (released as ‘Stakker Humanoid’ on Morgan Khan’s label, Westside). Stakker and Dougans had already split by the time the record was released, and the Eurotechno soundtrack, which had been begun by Dougans with input from Garry Cobain, was completed by Scott and Simon Monday. (Cobain and Dougans went on to release projects under the names Smart Systems, Yage, Indo Tribe, Mental Cube and most famously, The Future Sound Of London.)
 Here is the first part of The Evil Acid Baron Show. For this and the Eurotechno videos, McClean and Scott used a Fairlight CVI graphics machine, which was the video “sister” to the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer made famous by the likes of Herbie Hancock and Art Of Noise.


Ridendo Magazine Ads






"Illustrator Jérôme Dubois recently began scanning and preserving the covers and contents of Ridendo, "a medical and humor magazine distributed to French physicians from 1933 to 1977." Jérôme's collection centers on the 1930s, when this improbable-sounding magazine was full of ads for improbable-sounding drugs." (50 WATTS)

A Mindless Machine


Eyes of the Beholder