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Coke, ether, acid, guns, whatever.My choice as well. Louisville boy to boot.
Good call. His role in Less Than Zero was the epitome of art meeting reality.Robert Downey Jr.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.Coke, ether, acid, guns, whatever.
1978, Christmas time, N.Y. Tripping balls, as per usual. In Grand Central station with college roommate waiting for a train, or maybe it was Penn Station, I don't know. We had just gotten the hairy eyeball from a cop because we were tossing a frisbee around inside. We settled against a wall to await our train. I tried to appear casual and so took out my book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I pretended to read so as to avoid his gaze. He walks over, smiles down at me, and says if I am going to pretend to read I ought to hold the book right side up and then he walks away. My roommate falls out laughing. I was indeed holding the book upside down.There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Honest to god, when I was in school, I worked at the University and part of my job required me to have temporary access to a master key that worked on every campus lab (not med school). I worked night shift. However, I never once took any ether.
I did find some other interesting things tho - but no ether.
I prefer to read it that way myself....I was indeed holding the book upside down.
Of course not --In grand central station with college roommate waiting for a train, or maybe it was Penn station, I don't know.
Tripping balls, as per usual.
Will E. Lee?There's no poll, but who is your favorite cocaine cowboy?
I'll start with the protagonist of Johnny Cash's Cocaine Blues.
fo' shizzle mah Mizzle
You and your stupid words again....
I thought it was Grand Central but was, and remain, very unfamiliar with N.Y. I have since been told that trains out of the City did not run from there, but from Penn Station. I don't know. I do know that it had a grand hall large enough to fling a Frisbee across.Of course not --
Saw JJ in Town Park in Telluride in 1994. A little mini-derecho burst came through as he was playing Cocaine. "Mother nature doesn't much care for that one, I guess."Sigmund Freud.
Edgar Allen Poe, though he indulged the morphine even more.
J.J. Cale.
Yes. The 80s were a fun decade but I don't know how I lived through some of the years. Coke is an evil SOB.Not to derail this thread, but I've always wanted to ask this and figured this is as good of a place as any. Was cocaine just EVERYWHERE in the 80s? Movies and TV make it appear that way.
I grew up in small town Nebraska. I didn't even know anyone that claimed to have used cocaine until the 90s.
Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago - pretty good documentary on Netflix.i've become a big fan of Mr. Kath ... yeah, this speaks to me big-time
In Boulder they would have a Friday Afternoon club(FAC) at the Hilton right next to the creek and campus. In the courtyard it was a big area and maybe 5K would show up to enjoy the food, bands and drinking.....and a s$@##t-ton of cocaine. There were rooms over looking the courtyard. Maybe 7 stories if I recall with patios overlooking the courtyard. You would get a room and swap a bunch of keys with your friends so they could get past security and you would go floor to floor room to room and every single one was having a party with giant lines of the stuff. You'd walk in introduce yourself and put out a bunch of lines of your stash and keep partying. Just like the movies. They had big outdoor in-ground hot-tubs out back and the scene around there was wild wild wild with coke whores everywhere topless. You would party till around 9 - go and eat somewhere(rarely eating a lot of food) - maybe hit a few bars - then head up to the mountain/foothill towns of Nederland, Gold Hill(Snow Hill as it was known back then) until the sun would rise over the plains.Not to derail this thread, but I've always wanted to ask this and figured this is as good of a place as any. Was cocaine just EVERYWHERE in the 80s? Movies and TV make it appear that way.
I grew up in small town Nebraska. I didn't even know anyone that claimed to have used cocaine until the 90s.