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drugs: visual art versus audible art

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Cernunnos:
well put. i should say, the artists i know have tried other things, but really just stick to the cannabis and alcohol. and don't really use them for inspiration. maybe to make the art theyr'e looking at more interesting, though. and i know alot of artists. being in art school does that. this is not to say that artists don't use drugs to inspire their work, because obviously some do. it just seems like they do it alot less. and as for exposure, you may be right. we visual artists don't really get as much media coverage when we go into rehab.

Kai:
Yeah, my experience with people on drugs personally is that they're dull, boring, hazy, lazy fuckers.

Houdinimachine:
Unless the drug is alcohol. Then, if they're my roomies from Cali, they turn into a three ring circus of entertainment.

Artists can do whatever drugs they want. Just as long as it doesn't kill them. I'm still pissed that Mitch Hedberg was dumb enough to go over the line.

KharBevNor:
Some people just do better on drugs. Ewigkeit's albums, for example, are becoming steadily more pedestrian since Mr. Fog stopped using drugs (heavily), though, to be fair, pedestrian Ewigkeit still sounds like total tripped out shit, and I don't think the paranoia will EVER go away.

Also, why do you differentiate between alcohol and other drugs? Just because alcohol is more normal or socially acceptable doesn't make it not a drug. There's also a cultural aspect: music is more intricately linked to the drug culture, like pop art, whereas traditional and conceptual art has more...pretension? Still, many great artists and poets have been alcoholics, or opium addicts. Many more have simply been terribly mentally unstable. Lovecraft couldn't have written without his nightmares any more than Coleridge could have written without his opium. Everyone has different sources of inspiration, and different reasons to take drugs: some people don't relate their use of drugs or alcohol to their work, others make it integral. Some experimental musicians, writers and artists have deliberately used drugs as a means of pushing the boundaries of art (Coil's album 'Loves Secret Domain', apparently produced within one ritualised LSD trip, instantly comes to mind.) Other creative persons have created great works of art, literature or music about drugs (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas anyone?).

I think you're creating a false dichotomy anyway. Also, I am a dull, boring lazy fucker, and I don't do (many) drugs.

Kai:
Fear and Loathing really is pretty much my favorite book ever.

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