senpsy Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Hello psynuts ive just started out using this forum and am hoping you all had a wonderful & safe time over NYE i just got back from a house party (no psy unfortunately) and had one o those moments where im lazing in the chill room talkin to someone about the psytrance scene around the world. when i realized, 'This guy didnt have a clue what i was talking about' - but he acted as if he did - and i admired his astuteness well, It seems the psytrance scene is so underground that noone in their right mind could even conceptualize its existence, well, at this party anyway! he thought i was making it all up and that it was rubbish. The easiest way to make him understand where i was coming from was to compare the psyscene with the sixties hippy culture. was i wrong to do this? my reasons are listed below; alot of flouro - yep alot of trippy music - yep alot of drugs - yep alack of sleep - yep alack of reality - yep alot of love - indeed After making these comparisons we mulled the issue of psytrance over a couple of ales and it was then, he quoted a scene from 'fear & loathing in las vegas' by terry gilliam- where dr gonzo talks of the entire scene being lied to by the use of LSD - which eventually lead to the demise of an entire culture. I THIS THE SAME WITH THE PSYSCENE? IS IT DISAPPEARING UP ITS OWN ARSE? Are we turning out to become a bunch of "permanent cripples"? (Am i ever going to get over this comedown?) views please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rain Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 I think you should see the goa documentary 'last hippie standing'... where you see the evolution of the hippies in the 60's until the goa expression starting in the 90's and further... Last Hippie Standing... Some review about the documentary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senpsy Posted January 1, 2005 Author Share Posted January 1, 2005 hay rain - thank yu!! i dont know where ill find this film but ill look for it asap!! wikid a moviee!! thanks again!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kathmandu Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 On the TV an airplane soars thru the sky. Pull back to find DUKE barricaded in GONZO'S BEDROOM. He is typing on his typewriter. DUKE We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... DUKE records like A WAR CORRESPONDENT. The CAMERA slowly rises -- DUKE alone in the room with the TV SPEWING OUT IMAGES OF WARS AND CIVIL UNREST OF THE 90'S. DUKE All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... RISING HIGHER -- THE WALLS OF THE ROOM APPEAR TO BY 20 TO 30 FEET HIGH. DUKE SEEMS TO BE AT THE BOTTOM OF A WELL... THE CAMERA RISES UP THROUGH BROKEN TIMBERS... DUKE ... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force -- is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. HIGHER STILL -- DUKE ALONE IN THE ROOM -- AN ISOLATED BOX SURROUNDED BY THE TWISTED METAL AND RUBBLE AND SMASHED NEON SIGNS OF THE DEAD CITY -- A BLASTED LANDSCAPE WITHOUT LIGHT -- SHARDS OF A CIVILIZATION. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senpsy Posted January 2, 2005 Author Share Posted January 2, 2005 wow kathmandu!! this is based around the conversation we had man! hehehe niiice! i can read what this guy was sayin now! and i think ive stabilised now by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trolsk Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 alot of love - indeed Myth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Myth 209139[/snapback] indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ov3rdos3 Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 On the TV an airplane soars thru the sky. Pull back to find DUKE barricaded in GONZO'S BEDROOM. He is typing on his typewriter. DUKE We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... DUKE records like A WAR CORRESPONDENT. The CAMERA slowly rises -- DUKE alone in the room with the TV SPEWING OUT IMAGES OF WARS AND CIVIL UNREST OF THE 90'S. DUKE All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... RISING HIGHER -- THE WALLS OF THE ROOM APPEAR TO BY 20 TO 30 FEET HIGH. DUKE SEEMS TO BE AT THE BOTTOM OF A WELL... THE CAMERA RISES UP THROUGH BROKEN TIMBERS... DUKE ... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force -- is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. HIGHER STILL -- DUKE ALONE IN THE ROOM -- AN ISOLATED BOX SURROUNDED BY THE TWISTED METAL AND RUBBLE AND SMASHED NEON SIGNS OF THE DEAD CITY -- A BLASTED LANDSCAPE WITHOUT LIGHT -- SHARDS OF A CIVILIZATION. 209113[/snapback] <----- as you can see i really loved this movie as well. that is the best narration in the movie i think. very deep and profound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 indeed indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlockalien Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 indeed indeed 210334[/snapback] indeed hahah but hey.. "alack of reality - yep" who´s to judge what is reality and whats not? Is going to a job from 9-17, monday to fridays, reality? Or is travelling through all different places in the world reality? Or is staying at home watching tv reality? To me, going to psy party and having anything to do with this ´culture´, is just as reality as anything else... or I might say, just as unreality as anything else... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senpsy Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 Sherlock - you my firend have got your head totally screwed on right amen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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