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@Oaktavia thats a pretty wild way to meet Omar! I saw ATDI at the Astoria in London around the time Relationship of Command came out, 2001 I believe. I was 14 years old and to my shame was heavily into my-metal. That show completely flipped my musical taste. I wish I still had my ATDI boombox tee I got from that show, not that it’d fit me anymore.
In the same vein, a few weeks after the ATDI show I went to see …Trail of Dead also at the Astoria. Again, they were a band I didn’t know much about but were being compared in a lot of ways to ATDI so I turned up to see. While queueing we were chatting to some New York dudes down the alley outside, who told us they were first support band. They found it funny that me and my friends were only 14 seeing trail of dead, joking that we should still be in school and shit. One of them picked me up and ran around giving me a piggy-back. They were The Strokes, who at the time were kinda unknown to me. Sometimes I think it’s funny that Julian Casablancas gave me a piggy-back when I was 14…
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…Adrenochrome is something else!
I seriously hope this comment is in jest…
I have chosen to consider it as such.
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…I tend to think the emoji's send the inflection meant but it's great to see chivalry is not dead.
...'God save the Queen, we mean it man'. JR
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…I tend to think the emoji's send the inflection meant but it's great to see chivalry is not dead.
...'God save the Queen, we mean it man'. JR
Sorry be a stick in the mud, but I think the reservations were more about the implicit QAnon references than concern for Lizzy’s honour.
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…@neph93 well before Qanon was a thing Hunter S. Thompson had brought up Adrenachrome in his time on earth...and Hunter would probably have known about these sort of things.
...ah yes, the great awakening!
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Yes, a drug-addled writer mentioned it–as an intoxicant, not a magical life-extender--in a fictional novel. Not exactly a reputable source. He would be horrified that people have taken it literally and twisted it into such dangerous nonsense.
All the Qanon thing is a rehashing of the old blood libel myth used to demonize Jews as baby killers that has incorporated another myth in adrenochrome to give it a veneer of plausibility for the easily duped. It is sad how susceptible so many people are to such a hamfisted psy-ops campaign.
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…@neph93 well before Qanon was a thing Hunter S. Thompson had brought up Adrenachrome in his time on earth...and Hunter would probably have known about these sort of things.
...ah yes, the great awakening!
I’ve read HST. As a (former?) post punk fan you may be interested in this, if you haven’t heard it before:
Sort of funny that the guy who published this video has had to put in a note to distance the video from QAnon’ers.
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…wow! Didn't know it went so deep for people...I take everything with a grain of salt, but conspiracy theories can/have turn(ed) into something more like spoiler alerts.
...the great awakening indeed.
...@neph93 I'll check them out ,thanks!
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Wasn't the adrenochrome part in F&LILV (in the movie with Johnny Depp) when Duke was wearing the lizard tail and wading around in knee deep water one of the hotel rooms the rented out? Wild stuff…I didn't read that book but I did think of the movie when I read @vaquero357 's comment.
I did read Thompson's Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs a couple of times and it was one of my favorite reads. The Rum Dairy was a great novel but the movie was not so good in my opinion. I also read a large chunk of Fear and Loathing in America which was pretty dry in some spots but rich in others.
Anyway, carry on…I miss reading I used to.
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…@neph93 wow, does that song bring me back to my wasted youth!
MPLS... at the 7th St. Entry with the smell of Clove cigarettes and stale beer permeating the cramped space...I'd go back. -
…@Oaktavia probably in my mid twenties and I started with 'The Great Shark Hunt' and truly I've never belly laughed so much from any book. Have everything he's done. I still need to rent a car and road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas!
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I think that's right @Oaktavia –the adrenochrome thing in F&L in LV was a IMO nothing but a great device to underscore the macabre side of many illicit mind-altering substances (or more precisely, the organizations behind manufacture and distribution of such) ... As John Perry Barlow put it "shipping powders back and forth. black goes south and white goes north." The shadow markets that prohibition creates (or at least exacerbates) make for a lot of human suffering and the rise of ruthless cartels unbeholden to regulators or law enforcement. The adrenochrome thing about it (falsely) having to be harvested from living humans took that darkness and amplified it even further. FWIW, adrenochrome is just oxidized adrenaline--you can create it in a lab. And it will get you high, but it is the opposite of a life-prolonging substance.
Despite the adrenochrome shit as far as Q's story is concern being clearly false, there are very real things going on with human trafficking and harvesting organs from sometimes living human beings. This Q bullshit introduces a bunch of confusion on what is actually going on and who is actually responsible for it. That makes it much harder to stop it, and much easier to make bad decisions on bad intel, and that's why it pisses me off.
If believing in obviously false and easily falsifiable fictions is a "great awakening," you can call me Rip van Winkle
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…@mclaincausey all tongue in cheek my friend.
@Matt good job! Willpower! -
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Naughty boy! We'll meet up in 'Detention'!
