Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs. Any thoughts on this book?

I couldn't finish it. Reminded me of my crazy youth when I and my friends would take illegal substances and write about it during and after*. It also reminded me that being under the influence is far more fun than reading about it. x)

*my good friend wrote what she thought was a philosophical treatise that would solve the mysteries of the universe, under the influence of LSD. The next day we read what she'd typed: "A mouse is a mouse is a mouse is a mouse" - for three pages. LOL!

XD

I wonder what kind of music you'd make while tripping.

Horrible. We used to do that, too. :D

On the other hand, I quite like Country Joe and the Fish's music and they did quite a lot of it 'under the influence', as did Pink Floyd and many, many others.

Though Pink Floyd was more in a perpetual trippy state then the occasional, I think.

If you are already a 'musical genius' (say, Hendrix, for example) then the use of a drug like acid may allow new levels and ground to be explored. The same might be possibly true of a writer or artist. But if you are not a 'genius' or accomplished, then the results might be comical, since as the others point out above, taking a hit of LSD might only make you think you are a genius or creating something amazing, BUT only in your own head space....

in Music there are countless examples of drug use (both directly musical and on the periphery) with similarly countless results... both good and bad.

When i was 18 in my first year of University, a handful of us went on an Acid Trip experience. We spent several hours looking at a Salvador Dali print and several more hours trying to read pages from a book. Do any of us remember our great 'realizations'? Sadly all i remember today was that i felt some kind of mystical/connected experience and at the time i 'understood' what Dali was trying to express.... while at the same time we became part of the music as the stereo played Axis Bold As Love and every note made perfect sense...

:)

I whant to make experiments with differrent kinds of "legal" Drugs, like Muskat and Galanga. And then I will make a video with me when i have take this drugs. This expiriment will be interesting for me, too make a deper dive in to the place in my Soul. But when I will take this experiment I need a good friend that suport me and look after me. Because you can some worst things when you are of Drugs. And I neet e special place to do this. This experiment my be help me to get deper in my philosophie and writings, too. But it is too dangerous.