This Past Weekend
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- scarabin0
• friday i had jury duty. finished timothy leary's book "your brain is god" while waiting around. found it interesting but extremely pedestrian, almost like it was just a boiled down and simplified compilation of his other works.
• started on another of his books called "the psychedelic experience", which is based on the tibetan book of the dead.
• saturday i did a bit of traveling and picked up a sheet of acid; first time i'd seen one in its complete form. it's made from a grateful dead album cover.
• on the way back i stopped at bevmo and bought a bottle of "st. georges absinthe verte", easily the best absinthe i've ever tasted. it's much lighter and herbaceous than what i'm used to, and sweet enough that it doesn't even require sugar. i louched it with ice for an afternoon pick-me-up.
• re-watched this documentary about the tibetan book of the dead, narrated by leonard cohen. love this film.
• sunday i found i had received tickets to both burning man AND lightning in a bottle in the mail. figured i oughtta start getting ready so i dragged out my teepee, shook the playa dust off it and mended a ten-foot rip that happened during a dust storm last year. also made some leather patches and drank fat tires while i sewed them onto stress points all around. got a sunburn for the first time since i was ten :(
- scarabin0
just spent four days at lightning in a bottle, where i:
• took acid and made some of the most profound, epiphanic realizations i've ever had, which completely changed my view of humanity, watched a painting come to life
• did yogic alchemy for the first time
• sampled a wide variety of vegan foods
• went on a guided spirit journey
• made friends/connections with many interesting people
• had a foursome (some dude's amazingly hot asian wife told me she believed we had "lain together in a village in a past life" so i suggested we do it again)
• got another sunburn
• dropped mollies on two days, danced to some of the greatest DJs in the world
• tried out a new party costume
• sat in a machine that amplifies your heartbeat to a deafening throb
• snuck off and had sex in a forest above and behind the stage where glitch mob was spinning
• had far-out conversations with far-out people, including one woman who was convinced she was psychic and went around rubbing crystals all day and freaking out when one felt warm
• meditated inside a giant humming truncated dodecahedron made of steel and mirrors
• bought a pair of fine leather gloves
• had sex in a temple at night, overlooking a lake surrounded by hills
• smoked hookah while listening to different orators share their expertise on everything from raising worms to using DMT as a gateway to higher consciousness
• traded and tried different kinds of pot strains with our camp neighbors
- You should get someone to document your weekends and make a series.SunSunSun
- ...bigtrickagain
- you should have done all this guff back in the 90s. No one does drugs anymore.mikotondria3
- i'm not interested in what anyone else does, mikotondria3scarabin
- that should be obvious by nowscarabin
- did your dicks touch and then magically transform into a river of flowers?Douglas
- can you share some profound realizations of humanity with us?Douglas
- 2 sunburns in a month, since the age of ten!!! This new trend scares me. Be careful!Douglas
- no, because some information must be prepared for and you're not truly interested anyway.
and i know, i'm turning brown!scarabin - btw - where are the pics?Amicus
- at the time the idea of taking pics seemed silly to mescarabin
- I'm too chicken to do most of this stuff anymoremonospaced
- Ramanisky20
First i went here ... and won $250
then we came here..
and we played a lot of this
http://www.thehomeknowitall.com/…and did a lot of this
and many of these
that's it
- Lifeinvector0
- Great Pics Brooke :)
Ramanisky2 - Aw shucks. *kicks dirt*Lifeinvector
- I love the puddle pic.
what happened to the cake?fooler2 - stop hiding your damn face, you're beautifulscarabin
- Great Pics Brooke :)
- sandbag0
I flew from San Diego to Ft Lauderdale with my band and played a bellydance festival. First time as a band we've had flights/hotel paid for! yeah :-)
http://www.danyavaad.com
- scarabin0
friday i took the day off and flew from LA to panama city, FL to see some friends and family. within an hour of landing i was cruising around the bay on a restored paddleboat in a 1920s murder mystery party. i played the part of a mob boss who was having an affair with the sister of a competing mob boss. met a guy who was a professional jack sparrow at disney world.
saturday i checked out an old native american temple mound early settlers had found. i've been interested in early weapons and this gave me a chance to study an atlatl up close. i found myself particularly interested in the symbology ancient potters used in the patterns they applied to their work. i also learned that when burying these bowls with the dead they would drill a hole in the bottom so the potter's soul wouldn't be trapped underground with the deceased.
that night i stopped by my best friend's place (haven't seen him in years). i met his new girl and we all ate some acid i had brought with me. we smoked pot and played beatles rock band while coming up (which was amazing), then around 2am decided to go for a drive down the strip (also amazing). we ended up at the beach, where we marveled at how black the water appeared at night, and how it was impossible to discern where it ended and the night sky began. overhead the stars beamed rays of light down at us. we decided that if there were ever a place on earth to contemplate the infinite this would be it. i lay back on the sand with outstretched limbs and felt the earth spinning around me... as i meditated i became aware that we are simply energy inhabiting our physical bodies, and i could feel my consciousness move from body part to body part. i focused on the roar of the ocean and the pull of the tides on my millions of wet cells, could feel the sea tugging at my being with each push and pull of the waves. it pulled at my sex and it felt like gaia was giving me a big wet blowjob. i melted into the ocean and became one with her energy. i had a true elemental water experience that night, and decided that i would have peak acid experiences for fire (at burning man), earth (in a subterranean cave), and air (on a mountain) next. we realized we didn't bring any pot with us so we headed back and smoked a bowl. by this time we were starving so we went to a nearby store and bought a loaf of french bread, some smoked cheese, some fruit and a bottle of peligrino. "why do you want sparkling water?" his girl asked. "because everything should titillate us" i replied, and i meant it. we are sense organs for experience. we took our fare to a bay where we frequented some 15 years ago as kids, smoked cigarettes and watched the sun come up over the water as we ate. around 6am we left. he dropped me off at my mother's house and we all hugged goodbye. i told him we'd hang out the next day but we both knew it wouldn't happen– we were all exhausted and we knew it would be impossible to top such a perfect night. i stayed up reading before finally catching my sleep around 10am.
the next day was spent licking my wounds, recovering from the night before. i slept in till 3 and streamed netflix with my mom until she went to bed. the next day i was on my flight back to LA.
- i saved some water from that night in my flask for ritual use, i plan on gathering some elemental object each timescarabin
- scarabin0
here's a clip from that trip
- scarabin0
on friday i was major jetlagged from the trip but still managed to drag my ass out to party. dropped a couple of mollies once inside, danced all night. i always think about how this shit is the modern equivalent of drinking fermented juice and dancing around a prehistoric fire.
step 1: get fucked up
step 2: dance
step 3: enter trance, elevation of consciousnesswent home, had a little afterparty with my girl, slept till 3pm the next day and by 6pm was out partying again. this time i paid more attention to the art installations they had around, including this piece i recognized from burning man.
i later heard that there were 180,000 people at this party (five times the size of the entire first crusader army), one went into a coma, and another died.
- scarabin0
checked out the sequel to the star wars burlesque show i went to a few months back. this one's called "the fempire strikes back". apparently george lucase made them change the name of the show from "star wars" to "star warz" and change the names of all the characters. here's a pic of me with "slabba the slut"
good trashy fun
- scarabin0
went to nocturnal festival last weekend. didn't take too many pics but did get this clip of a trippy light tunnel i've seen around.
- scarabin0
went to LA decompression on saturday, ate some mushrooms and wandered around tripping out on cool art.
- scarabin0
saw mutaytor perform