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Unusual and goofy comedy spoofing the horror genre from The Pimps Horror House™ TV show, Cleveland (www.ilovehorror.com) featuring a five minute excerpt from the Pimp's 'Monster from Green Hell' video.Unusual and goofy comedy spoofing the horror genre from The Pimps Horror House™... more
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Jeff Walton was and is a member of the innovative minimalist, new wave, pop trio The Judy's in the late 70s and 80s...and the band has enjoyed a recent resurgence.
Jeff has evolved into a talented composer with over 20 feature films to his credit along with numerous short films, commercials, animated films, documentaries...
i was a fan of The Judy's long ago and I was really excited to find out he was still very active in the music biz and working in film...
He says what he is doing now is making music for modern media....and his site is worth a visit and his demo is definitely worth listening to.Jeff Walton was and is a member of the innovative minimalist, new wave, pop trio The... more
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Since the ‘60s (at least), the Houston and Austin music scenes have had a thorny relationship too complicated to go into here, but in basic terms, Houston has traditionally provided the raw material and Austin the refinement. But Wednesday at the Austin Music Awards, the capital city’s annual pat on the back to the winners of the reader-voted Austin Chronicle music poll, Houston stole the show.Since the ‘60s (at least), the Houston and Austin music scenes have had a thorny... more
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The Judy's Come Back
Just in time for SXSW, the Pearland New Wavers brush off the mothballsThe Judy's Come Back
Just in time for SXSW, the Pearland New Wavers brush off... more
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I used to go see this fantastic band in Austin, TX back in the mid 80's... They have recently rereleased their catalog on CD and the individual members are still shaking things up. This site is a great launch pad to find out more about this innovative minimalist post-punk new wave trio... their current projects and more.
If you are not familiar with the Judy's, this is a great time to discover some highly entertaining new wave roots, planted firmly in the Texas soil.I used to go see this fantastic band in Austin, TX back in the mid 80's... They... more
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Woman supplied LSD to a partygoer, has been freed from jail.
A Watford woman who supplied LSD-laced chocolates to a partygoer, who was then left paralysed due to a drug-fuelled fall, has been freed from jail.
After eating Maltesers laced with the hallucinogenic drug LSD, Christopher Marlow, 25, from Heathfield, East Sussex, ripped the skin and hair from his head in a bid to "free demons".
He then broke his neck and spine after falling 30ft from a tree.
Mr Marlow was left paralysed from the chest down after the devastating fall at a friend's party.
Earlier this year, Lisa Hillyer, 28, of Vicarage Road, Watford, was jailed for handing out the hallucinogenic chocolates at the party.
She was jailed for two years on April 25, after pleading guilty to possession of LSD with intent to supply, as well as charged of supplying LSD and possession of LSD.
Mr Justice MacKay, sitting with Mr Justice King at London's Criminal Appeal Court, today freed her after quashing her sentence.
Instead they imposed a 12-month community order with a drugs treatment programme.
The court heard on the day of the accident Mr Marlow was discovered writhing in pain at the bottom of the tree.
Doctors found he had broken his neck, four ribs, his foot and lumbar vertebrae in his spine.
The 25-year-old is likely to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
Hillyer, the court was told, had struggled with drug addiction herself before being jailed and had been undergoing a residential treatment programme.
Mr Justice King, giving the judgment of the court, said it was "in the public interest and in her own interest" that Hillyer be freed now so that she is able to resume her rehabilitation from addiction.
He said: "Her actions had a tragic outcome for the person to whom she supplied the LSD, although she had not done so for profit.
"But we have concluded that we are now in a position to temper what would otherwise be the appropriate course with some mercy."
He concluded: "She will be released in order to embark on a rehabilitation programme." Woman supplied LSD to a partygoer, has been freed from jail.
A Watford woman who... more
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Late last year Zenfilm created a unique music video for psychedelic rockers Southern Backtones. Since its release in 2007 the video has spread across the internet, aired on MTV and Canada's MuchMusic networks, and won many awards. The latest of which is the audience choice award for music video from the 11th Annual Dances With Films Festival in Los Angeles.... which wasn't easy considering the caliber of films and filmmakers competing in the category.
Late last year Zenfilm created a unique music video for psychedelic rockers Southern... more
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Heffter Research Institute's board member Charles S. Grob was surprised when the producers of the Fox Television Network's "The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet" asked him to talk live about his psilocybin research with cancer patients. Grob sent them to Norbert Litzinger, volunteer Director of Development and husband of Pam Sakuda, a patient in the study who passed away a year and a half ago. The live interviews with Grob, Litzinger and another of Grob's subjects -- is heartening to watch.
For more information - www.heffter.orgHeffter Research Institute's board member Charles S. Grob was surprised when the... more
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1. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Huxley's account of his experiments with mescaline in the 1950s make psychedelic use sound like a perfectly reasonable and admirable pursuit which would bring credit to any middle class gentleman. Huxley never wrote a dull sentence in his life and this is certainly one of his best works. If its influence of the likes of Timothy Leary or Jim Morrison is considered, then it could easily be his most culturally important book.
2. The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is usually considered Thompson's best work, but I much prefer The Great Shark Hunt. It's a huge book, a collection of the best of his journalism from the 60s and 70s, and it shows that Thompson had a far greater range than his later reputation suggests. His essay about Hemingway's death, in which he tried to understand why such a once-vibrant man ended up blowing his brains out in small town America, is particularly poignant following Thompson's suicide.
3. The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
This is Wolfe's account of life with Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and the birth of the American west coast psychedelic movement. Wolfe knew that a detached, even-handed journalistic approach could never really explain what was happening, so he gave his book the same psychedelic viewpoint as his characters. The result is a wonderful piece of writing. For those of us who weren't born in the 60s, this is probably the closest we can get to experiencing it.
4. High Priest by Timothy Leary
Leary was a prolific writer, producing over 30 books and hundreds of essays and papers. I've chosen his autobiographical High Priest (1968) for this list as I think it is one of his most accomplished pieces of writing. It captures both the drug experience and the sense of discovery so well; the moment a scientist realises that the implications of their work are so huge that their life will never be the same again.
5. Sisters of the Extreme: Women writing on the drug experience by Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz (eds)
Psychedelic use is split fairly evenly between the men and women, but the desire to write about and try to explain the experience is a predominantly male trait. Certainly every other book in this top ten is from a male author, which is why this book so important. It sheds light on the otherwise hidden half of the psychedelic experience.
6. The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereux
Devereux's impressive and thorough trawl through prehistory will be an eye-opener for anyone who thought drug use was a modern phenomenon. Devereux demonstrates that this point in history is a strange quirk in the human story, a rare time where we don't have a structure for incorporating psychedelic use into our society. If nothing else, it will make you view your ancestors in a different light!
7. DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, MD
The medical profession has written little about psychedelics since Timothy Leary, which makes this book all the more valuable. DMT, a natural chemical produced by the human brain, is a hallucinogen so powerful that it makes LSD look like lager shandy. DMT throws up some very big questions about the workings of the brain, consciousness and about the world at large, and Strassman does not shy from these. For those who think that one day science will have all the answers, this book shows just how clueless we still are.
8. Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati Volume 1 by Robert Anton Wilson
9. Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution by Kevin Booth and Michael Bertin
10. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff
1. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Huxley's account of his... more
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Man busted for large amout of LSD
SCHENECTADY - An Oregon man is sitting in a Schenectady County jail cell after being arrested over the weekend at the Camp Bisco Music Festival.
There were thousands of music lovers on hand for the three-day festival in Mariahville and police say Jonathan Taylor had more than enough LSD to go around -- about 14,000 hits of acid. The Portland man is charged with three counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, two of which are felonies.
"We're not sure how he got it over the check points, but he did. That's why security is here to ride around and the attendees too. They come here to have a good time. They don't need that kind of stuff," Bill Potter said.
Potter's family runs Indian Lookout Country Club. This is the second year they've hosted the Camp Bisco Music Festival. He says on Saturday night, the last night, some alert concert goers and some quick action by his security staff helped nab Taylor.
"We went down. When we found him he had these little things, what looked like papers, looked like art work. Come to find out they were acid," Potter said.
Potter says security escorted Taylor off the grounds and handed him over to state police.
After checking his car, police say they found 14,000 hits of LSD along with $17,000 in cash.
The allegations of trying to get others tripping on acid earned this Oregon man a trip to the county jail.
"Don't like it, that's what we try to stop it. Someday my kids might be up here and that guy could be trying to sell that stuff to my kids," Potter said.
Taylor is being held at the Schenectady County Jail without bail.
There have been hundreds of these stories recently so I felt the need to post a few. Chock one up for the local police departments for taking advantage of unjust laws and ruining the lives of countless free and law abiding Americans for the political purpose of making a headline. These do good police departments take photos of the loot they've pillaged from young and old alike. They pose smiling next to the Ziploc baggies of "contraband." We as a public at large praise them for their deeds, not thinking of the many years those people the police have just robbed will spend in jail, or the ruined lives they'll lead once they get out of jail, forever tattooed as a felon. We cheer when the local DA goes on the evening news to show us how they've just arrested someone's grand parents in a supposed marijuana ring. When it's time to allocate funds we pay millions upon millions of dollars to help organized criminals like the DEA and the local and state authorities to investigate, rob, and then put in jail our family, friends, neighbors, doctors, lawyers, priests, mailmen, professors and so on. These people they arrest are people like you and I. They are users and entrepreneurs alike. All fallen victim to the American Drug War and Narcotics Prohibition at large.
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Man busted for large amout of LSD
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This is an update to a story I posted earlier where in a man was tasered 3 times by police. The mans was allegedly on lsd and naked. Many readers found this story to be outrageous and excessive use of force. Here is the update. Teen arrested:
A 16-year-old boy accused of taking LSD, rolling around naked in a public street and resisting officers until being shocked several times with a Taser has been charged and had his case “resolved,” according to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office.
Police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said Christopher Dornfield was not initially arrested following the incident Wednesday, but she confirmed Monday that he has since been cited in the bizarre series of events that began when the teen allegedly split a hit of LSD with his 22-year-old friend.
Carolyn French, spokeswoman for the district attorney, on Tuesday said Dornfield was charged with at least one crime and that his case “has been resolved.”
“He has completed the court process,” French said.
She said she could not discuss details of the case because Dornfield is younger than 18 and was prosecuted as a juvenile.
Police administrative assistant Laurie Chestnut said Tuesday that officers previously had discussed with prosecutors the possibility of filing third-degree assault and criminal mischief charges against Dornfield.
Chief Mark Beckner said he could not discuss the case because of Dornfield’s juvenile status.
Police officials acknowledged they erred last week in releasing Dornfield’s name and not identifying him as a juvenile. Despite the Camera’s request for Dornfield’s age last week, police did not reveal he was a teenager until Monday.
According to police records, Dornfield allegedly split a hit of LSD with his friend, Brian Skutch, and was then taken for a drive by his other friends when he went out of control.
The group kicked Dornfield out of the car after he kicked his roommate in the eye while wearing a sock with thorns stuck to it, according to a police report.
Dornfield, naked and crawling on a patch of grass, was contacted by police at about 10:30 p.m. near the intersection of 28th Street and Iris Avenue, according to the report.
When Dornfield refused to comply with officers’ orders to hold still, he was shot with a Taser stun gun, according to police. He was shocked twice more after he tried to get back on his feet and advanced toward officers, police said.
Dornfield was treated and released from Boulder Community Hospital.
Police and paramedics later went to a nearby apartment to check on Dornfield’s friend. They found him sitting with his eyes open — but otherwise unresponsive — and took him to the hospital. This is an update to a story I posted earlier where in a man was tasered 3 times by... more
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The Daily Fix sits down with UK indie dance-punk band, Foals, to find out which musicians influence their music, and get details on the bands future plans.The Daily Fix sits down with UK indie dance-punk band, Foals, to find out which... more
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I've been circling around the Old Testament idea of the prophetic state of consciousness, which I think in some ways can allow for an incorporation of the psychedelic state - though there are a lot of dissimilarities - but probably more importantly is the information that comes in the psychedelic state. I think one of the pitfalls that the contemporary use of psychedelics is suffering from is that there isn't a culturally relevant framework in which to take home and incorporate the lessons of the psychedelic experience. A lot of it is, "Oh wow! That's the most amazing experience of my life and now I see that all is One," but that isn't really the prophetic viewpoint. The prophetic viewpoint is that there is information that is experienced in these exalted states and so what is that information?
You know, we're not shamans. We didn't spend our infancy and childhood and adolescence and adulthood in the jungle and you know, we're not Buddhists or Asians or Indians or Japanese, we're not Native Americans. We're people who emerged from the matrix of the Bible, more or less.
People talk about a Judeo-Christian worldview, but I think it's more Jewish, because Judaism is the root from which both Christianity and Islam grew, so I think that's our worldview. And to just reject it out of hand without knowing about it I think is a mistake, because there are quite a number people out there in power, both governmental and other power, who are familiar with what's written in the Bible, and if the psychedelic community is not, I think our ignorance hurts us in a couple of ways. For one, we can't counter some of the crazy, fundamentalistic interpretations of the text, but on the other hand, we aren't able to take advantage of what's there to live a psychedelically informed type of life in a culturally relevant way for us. I don't think that we have to reinvent the wheel, but we do have to return to our origins a little bit more intently, critically and passionately.
-from an interview with Dr. Rick Strassman
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Canadian rock band Rush will make a live appearance on U.S. television for the first time in 30 years with an appearance on The Colbert Report Wednesday.
The veteran band, which formed in Toronto in 1968, will play its classic Tom Sawyer.
Rush's members are singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart.
The Colbert Report, which made its name by parodying conservative political pundits, has lately moved toward frequent musical performances.Canadian rock band Rush will make a live appearance on U.S. television for the first... more
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Here are a few excerpts from the article which I find telling and encouraging to anyone who has any opinion in this field. Please take the time to sit back and read some of this.
The return flight from Switzerland was a mix of hope and solemnity for Rick Doblin, the only American to attend the funeral of Dr. Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD who had just died at the age of 102. Doblin, a Harvard-educated Ph.D and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, an organization that conducts legal research into the healing and spiritual potentials of psychedelics and marijuana, had spent his entire career trying to break through the virtually impenetrable wall of obstinacy that surrounds psychedelic compounds and their potential benefits to society.
More than anyone else in his field, Doblin is all too familiar with what he refers to as the "40-year-long bad trip" that researchers like him have faced in dealing with the fallout from the introduction of LSD and other psychedelic compounds to the Western psyche in the mid 1960s. This 40-year intellectual Dark Age, Doblin says, has been characterized by "enormous fear and misinformation and a vested interest in exaggerated stories about drugs to keep prohibition alive."
A Return to Respectability
Much greater than usual media attention accompanied the most recent World Psychedelic Forum held in March in Basel, Switzerland, the home of Albert Hofmann. A headline in the May issue of the staid British medical journal The Lancet -- known for challenging the Pentagon's Iraq casualty numbers -- read, "Research on Psychedelics Moves into the Mainstream."
The Healing Potential of Psychedelics
Unlike other treatments, which have shown pitifully low success rates, psychedelic-assisted therapy focuses on the emotional context under which a patient suffers addiction, not the use of the drugs themselves. "This," says Tom Roberts, a professor of psychology at Northern Illinois University and the co-editor of a new two-volume compilation, Psychedelic Medicine, "is what makes them uniquely effective. They allow negative ideas and feelings -- where most addictions have their origins -- to surface into consciousness. With the guidance of a mental health professional, the person can let them go." Once these negative feelings are gone, Roberts says, the person no longer feels the need to deaden them with drugs or alcohol.
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My music video to Fischerspooner's cover of German post punk band Wire's song The 15th. This was my first attempt at editing. I did it all on imovie HD, and shot it with my macbook's isight from my brothers car on the drive home. All the psychedelic light show images are just certain segments of the drive home with some effects laced on 'em. My concept/story is that you're falling asleep and when you close your eyes you get that neon light show on your eyelids. I hope this inspires people to make their own videos to music with creativity rather than an overload of product placement ( not talking about the original video ). So go out there people and be creative before it becomes a privilege and not a right!
Also, leave a comment and let me know what you think!My music video to Fischerspooner's cover of German post punk band Wire's... more
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The "Forever" video by Southern Backtones has taken on a life of its own. It has won numerous awards and expanded the Indie Rocker's audience base in ways we never thought possible. We are pleased and grateful for the reception it has received and wanted to share it on current.The "Forever" video by Southern Backtones has taken on a life of its own. It... more
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Slumber Party, the first single from Southern Backtones as yet untilted 4th album hints at the band's evolution into one of the leading psychedelic indie rock bands in the country. It is dark, anthemic, dirty, taboo, and a lot of fun.
Hank Schyma, Vocals and Guitar
John Griffin, Backing Vocals and Bass
Todd Sommer, Drums
Recorded at SugarHill Studios and produced by Dan Workman....
I can't wait to hear more from this band. Slumber Party, the first single from Southern Backtones as yet untilted 4th album... more
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"Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. He was 102.
Hofmann reportedly died of a heart attack at his home in Basel, Switzerland.
Hofmann's most famous discovery happened on April 16, 1943. He was researching the synthesis of a lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he inadvertently absorbed a bit through his fingertips. Intrigued by the effect it had on his perception, Hofmann decided further exploration was warranted. Three days later, on April 19, he ingested 250 milligrams of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid trip. That day became known among LSD fans as 'bicycle day' because Hofmann began experiencing the drug's intense effects on his bicycle trip home from the lab."
By Dylan Tweney April 29, 2008 | 6:55:29 PM
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/lsd-inventor-al.html
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