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"I could not tell if my eyes were open or shut"

While researching the Atom Orr review, we came across this blog post, leading to this Wikipedia backgrounder, and finally leading to this. Which is a howler. It begins as a very technical description of compound preparation...

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study: There is a loudness war after all, melodies are becoming blander, the timbre palette is suffering, and there is little end in sight. Here’s Tom with the weather.

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“Emotional Cues in American Popular Music: Five Decades of the Top 40.”

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Stream of Montreal – “Feminine Effects”

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hit and run: “Emboldened Orchestras are Embracing the New”

From Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. Executive summary: Classical music audiences seem more curious than ever, and performers have been emboldened over the past decade or so to take more chances. Composers from...

"I could not tell if my eyes were open or shut"

While researching the Atom Orr review, we came across this blog post, leading to this Wikipedia backgrounder, and finally leading to this. Which is a howler.

It begins as a very technical description of compound preparation (“Stirring was continued for an additional 10 min, then the red solids were removed by filtration, washed lightly with Et2O, and returned to the reaction beaker as a suspension in 200 mL fresh anhydrous Et2O”). But it promptly becomes a riotous travelogue:

(with perhaps 15 mg, smoked) “I took a hit from the pipe with five-methoxy in it, and after the 8 to 10 seconds it took to carry the chemical cialis buy to my brain I remember starting to fall over from my sitting position. My normal physical perceptions dissolved away from my awareness. My ears started to ring and I started to float off. I was acutely aware of a certain resonation of my aural perception, an electrical buzzing that fluctuated in synch with my visual perception. What I saw can only be described as a fantastically subtle multicolored phosphene, completely filling every area visually available. I say it in this way because I was simultaneously losing contact with my body, I could not tell if my eyes were open or shut, although I initially had the feeling that they were darting back and forth, from side to side. These feelings and sensations built up in intensity very quickly, a matter of seconds: I can remember this feeling of building intensity up to a point, and then I was not there in my body or in time. In the 10 to 15 minutes that my body was under the influence of the drug my mind was completely referenceless, there was no way for my consciousness to limit or gauge the stimuli my being was barraged with. I remember switching to a perception where the endless and intricate phosphene was love and the energy of light. I called upon those forces within my being to realign and submit, to let go of all the cogent fears and just exist … and that innate decision saved me a lot of psychic damage. What is most outstanding about the way it feels is an inability to judge in any way, by any method of the mind … it is unconquerable, as deep and profound as a totally unconditional love that is life. What a trip, huh?”

Indeed.  And there is much more.  Take it all in at Isomer Design.com.

Disclaimer: the Muse certainly doesn’t encourage its readers to cook up their own hallucinogen and smoke it in any dosage. Obey the laws of your province, city, state, country, hemisphere, etc. Be smart. But at the same time, our not-posting a link to the article wouldn’t change the fact that it happened, so here you are.

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