I've been listening to a lot of classic rock lately. mostly because I pulled out our USB record player and uploaded a handful of my dad's old vinyl records to my computer. I mean listen to this line up: Alan Parsons Project, Boston, ELO, Genesis, Journey, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Rick Springfield, Styx, Supertramp, The Police, The Who, Tower of Power. I never knew I was sitting on such a gold mine. and that's just the beginning.
but listening to all this music has really made me wonder about drugs lately. like most of these bands were druggies, it comes through their music, and the music is amazing. some of the best music I have ever heard. so I mean, there's gotta be something that drugs unleash in you, spurring such creativity.
maybe it's the inhibition of the feeling you get, or the part of the brain that is stimulated, or maybe it's just happenstance. anyway, I'm really intrigued by this now.
I mean, it's not to say I want to be a druggie so I can appreciate the music more, or try to experience what they were when they wrote it. and I guess at this point in life drugs sound freakin scary, knowing what they can do (and seeing what they do to some people).
so for now, I'll just enjoy the music.
but my curiosity is definitely peaked.
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although they tend to make some people more creative, drugs mostly just make people useless and uninteresting to the sober individuals around them.
unless they are yelling about being made of legos, which is funny for the first half hour.
drugs alter your state of mind. you see things in a different way and hear them in a different way. this means you can create things differently, and often better because of the peaked attention to the sounds.
anyway. i don't think anything is wrong with trying pot or something once or twice as long as you don't become a druggie.
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