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By: Euphoria #52: It’s very catchy « SHADOWPLAY

Euphoria #52: It’s very catchy « SHADOWPLAY — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:42:27 +0000

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By: dcairns

dcairns — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:38:28 +0000

Nobody ever warns of the risks of sunburn attendant upon psychedelic experiences, so thanks for that.
Also, our psychiatric hospitals are full to overflowing with cases of what could be termed self-inflicted insanity. It’s a harsh punishment for folks who were just trying to enjoy themselves or escape from burdensome realities, but it’s a very real risk. Our brain chemistry is our tenuous link from ourselves to the universe — and from ourselves to our selves.
That’s why I prefer to rely on the occasional fever for my altered states of consciousness.

By: Matt Hulse

Matt Hulse — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:35:14 +0000

Did it twice, I did. That acid. E notwithstanding. I’ll recount the first only - the microdot. I was promised cash - on top of dole - would’ve been nice. Got the dot instead. Payment for a hard night’s work projecting cut-up S8 movie loops on multiple projectors at a popular south coast seaside resort nightclub. About 6 months later, down it went, with a mate, Nigel, half and half each, dissolved in a shot glass. Later, a night time mini-sickle of stars, horrors of war, the blandness of tea, blanched faces, crickets under the fridge, lost time … and towards dawn, down the beach, fit, white, tanned joggers in clean cotton - and then a resolve to GET FIT. Not before crashing onto the beach, height of summer, passing out, severely FRAZZLED, peeling skin for days, now looking forward to melanoma in dotage. Two weeks I jogged - mad distances - cold baths thereafter - salads - no booze. A dangerous drug. Don’t do it kids.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:50:24 +0000

Well, hopefully you recorded Jarman’s Blue last night, that might be just the thing for you.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:21:28 +0000

I literally just read this blog entry after watching Camus’ BLACK ORPHEUS and you’re bombarding me with MORE colour, jeez.

By: dcairns

dcairns — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:10:46 +0000

Wow Bob wow!

Must watch some more Otto soon. Shall be getting a copy of TCM’s broadcast of Skidoo, even though it’s a pan-and-scan (I presume the negative is in limbo somewhere).

Hope to see you soon Kris, I appear to be getting better instead of worse at the moment.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:57:01 +0000

oh you have the flu or something? Can I have it?! -I am still getting paid sickdays!

Sounds bad though, but then you are still blogging, -but you will also still be blogging when you’re dead, won’t you?
Anyway, take care!

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:53:47 +0000

Paddy Chaevsky may have hated what Ken Russell did with Altered Sattes, but I loved it. John Corigliano’s score is magnificent, and as marital problem films go it beats the hell out of Kramer vs. Kramer.

The late great Dorothy Dean told me that Paddy was quite bonkers at the time he wrote it and got the idea from all the hydrotherapy sessions his doctors had ordered (cut to Oscar Levant singing “Mother” in hydrotherapy in Minnelli’s The Cobweb — which starred Richard Widmark.)

Preminger’s acid flick was of course the incomparable Skidoo My boyfriend Bill was living in John Phillip Law’s basement at the time of the shooting (it was the 60’s, don’t ask!) and said every day a big bus would come and scoop the cast up to take them to the set. Donayele Luna was living at the Law’s and Bill observed her one day chatting away with Nico — both of them in the full bloom of their “Mittel-Martian accents.”

Law was going with Barbara Parkins at the time, and Bill says the sight of the two of them walking through th garden in their underwear was breathtaking beyond belife.

And to top it all off, Bill had a classic 60’s Bad Acid Trip one evening — and Barbara Parkins talked him down from it!

Now if that isn’t the Ultimate 60’s Experience I don’t know what is!

Fellini, needless to say, didn’t really need to drop acid. But he did, and the results were Fellini Satyricaon — featuring Donayele Luna.

For those of you playing our game at home that’s “One Degree of Otto Preminger.”