quoted 29 lines From: "Kent Williams" <cadsi.com!kent@elvis.cadsi.com>>From: "Kent Williams" <cadsi.com!kent@elvis.cadsi.com>
>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:38:40 -0600
>References: <199501232313.SAA16565@zork.tiac.net>
>To: sasha@tiac.com (Sasha Kipervarg)
>Subject: Re: (313) Drugs and Music
>X-UIDL: 790966898.000
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>How is taking E at a dance any worse (or any better) than drinking a pitcher
>at the Red Stallion and going line dancing?
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>Drugs go with music like cinnamon sugar goes with toast. You can learn to
>eat it plain, and even enjoy it, but deep down, don't you want a little spice?
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>I stopped taking drugs when I started programming computers. I needed those
>brain cells I was sending on vacation. I don't do anything now except the
>odd three-beer buzz. But all those acid trips listening to "Phaedra" taught me
>where the music can take you, and now I feel just as tripped listening to
>good music as I ever did, without the hangover.
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>Note Well, my young colleagues, that taking drugs is a young person's game. If
>you're still doing it when you're thirty, people look at you funny. If you're
>still doing it when you're forty, people look at you with pity. If you're
>still doing it when you're fifty, you turn into Terrance McKennna. If you're
>still doing it at 60, you turn into Timothy Leary. So do yourself a favor, and
>quit while you still have some function in the frontal lobes.
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