Looks like David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs. Probably discussing Naked Lunch.

Looks like David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs. Probably discussing Naked Lunch.

Yes, you're ignored, and I read your comment anyway.

No, in saying "use drugs," I was not "implying cannabis." I said "use drugs" because I meant "use drugs." Rather than trying to interpret or 'read into' what I'm saying, it might help if you responded to my post, and not what you post in your mind on my behalf.

And I will take you up on your 'challenge:' below is a list of ten "highly intelligent" people who have used cocaine (note: at no point did I say "encourages the use of cocaine." I said "use drugs" without becoming addicted, and being able to function), so that you can provide me with 10,000 more** whose lives and families have been destroyed by it. (**And note here, we're talking about individuals whose lives were destroyed by the use of cocaine itself, and not by the pointless drug laws that imprison people for having a mental or emotional condition that provokes "self-medication" as a form of treatment. Nor are we talking about the illegal status of cocaine which, itself, gives rise to violent cartels that function in the shadow of its legal status.)

So, while certainly many of the following list of "highly intelligent" (non-cognitively deficient) and successful "celebrities" may no longer be using cocaine, all of the following have used cocaine and are/were not addicted and function(ed) just fine:

Sigmund Freud
Thomas Edison
Oprah Winfrey
Stephen King
Tim Allen
Hunter S. Thompson
Angelina Jolie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Steven Tyler
Robert Downey, Jr.

There are others (like William Burroughs, Eric Clapton, Grover Cleveland, David Crosby, Arthur Conan Doyle, Isadora Duncan, Ulysses S Grant, Abbie Hoffman, Elton John, King George V, Larry Kudlow, Sir Paul McCartney, & Barack Obama), but I thought I'd stop at 10.

And if you post the 10,000 names of those whose lives and families were destroyed by cocaine (and not by the pointless drug laws or its illegal status) by the end of the week, I'll take your point.

dude sounds a lot like Burroughs.

I wonder why.

I counsel some recovering opiate addicts.

That croak is unmistakable.

eat your heart out, William S. Burroughs

Very interesting, but definitely should be in the non existent New Age long*ed haired channel. I call bullshit until they put this tin foil on my head and I take it for a spin. Until then... there's still DMT for your hyperspace symbolism's.

But then again, who knows. Brion Gysin and William S Burroughs created the Dream Machine. I have used a dream machine before and it was fuckionng mind-mindbogglingly awesome. I even vectorised the schematics for easy printing if you have access to a large printer and sturdy yet bendable cardboard. These days laser cutters are all over so one could just get the material and send it to a cutter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOZh7oSUY30

And of course lets not forget the stories of people that have used isolation tanks aka floats in which the floater enters the theta state.

Avatar needs to open the letter from Edgar Rice Burroughs that was sealed in 1912 and given to the post office to hold for 97 years, telling them to stop stealing his shit.

Good day, sir!

Did you write that or did William S. Burroughs help you

@smart people

I didn't know fluoride was the main ingredient in Prozac..... But even if it is, it's such a minute quantity that it cannot have any effect, can it???

I'm super pro tap water, I despise the idea of bottled water. I'm pretty sure my tap here in Montreal has fluoride...

EDIT: Actually... looks like Montreal doesn't have fluoridation, however it's difficult to say for sure because cities seem to flip and flop back and forth on fluoridation and some Burroughs of Montreal do add fluoride. Ah well whatever, maybe the cool-aid's good for us.

Is he that much crazier than Mel Gibson? I don't know how to describe it but Hollywood just has a way with people. In the current fashion of Hollywood famous actors are losing their will to be planted to the Earth. Famous actors that seemed to have kept their cool for a long while. It's like a god damn epidemic... except Sheen never found God... he laughs in it's face. But, it's like he thinks he can channel Burroughs while he drinks shots and bangs rocks. Hey man, you're just not that sort of person. FIGURE IT OUT. You are not poetic or interesting you just have money and a problem.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

I'm sorry, but I cant buy into this whole Sheen meme,it's become pretty obvious that the guy has gone off the deep end. He has some serious mental issues, and I dont think its fair to him, and certainly not to his kids and family to play into it like this. If the interviews didnt convince you, his new "project" certainly will: http://www.ustream.tv/charliesheen

Voting this up purely for the Burroughs reference.

Naked lunch, Crash, Existenz are some of the greatest movies ever made...he compromises one-third of the holy 'david' trinity...the other two being lynch and fincher....and I read most of the Burroughs catalogue when I was a teen going through my beat-lit phase, and it changed my life...

Can't tell yas how many times I have quoted this piece...the vampire rant. Can't tell you how many times on this site, that blood-drained sensation comes all-too frequently with some of these user's formulamatic, mundane offerings...add to that, the pompous, self-delusional dribble that passes for commentary??!....Like the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, "I Die Daily!"

Great post pill-popper....Love Burroughs!

Ha ha! Burroughs!

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
LOL!! WOW, my bad. I didn't realize declaring the video dead would move you back down.

>_>
no biggy bud,
happens..i cant find a replacement,the first was a bugger to find LOL.
im on a metal kick atm...im sure ill find a new thing to obsess about soon =)
like your style my friend.
dont sweat it...at least i got to show that obscure burroughs adaptation.
till next time.
namaste.