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I must ask you about your history with tripping on acid.
Well my experience with LSD…I'm no expert. I find the psychedelic universe to be absolutely terrifying. But I think I have a natural psychedelic perspective, and my friends are often tripping around me. I'm not one to kind of return to the universe. They find that my perspective is often trippier than their own. And maybe it's because of my unusual upbringing. I actually took acid for the first time when I was 14 or 15 years old and it culminated in a scene not unlike something from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—the scene where Hunter S. Thompson has to lock the lawyer in the bathroom. I sort of assumed the Hunter S. Thompson character and my friend, she had taken far too much, decided to pull a butcher knife out of the kitchen drawer and chase me around the house. So that was sort of the beginning and the end of that fateful trip.
But in the song "Acid Tongue" I refer to going down to Dixie and dropping acid on my tongue. I'm not talking about the Mason-Dixon line. I’m referring to an elementary school in the San Fernando Valley called The Dixie Canyon where my friends and I took a pilgrimage on foot and ended up in the gates of this very strange elementary school.
These are different trips though, right?
Um, no this is one trip.
This is the same one?
It's just that it lasted a lifetime. And actually at the end of that experience my mom was out of town on a trip of her own and she returned to find me about 5 lbs lighter and I had—I was so desperate to get back to normal I decided to drink an entire gallon of orange juice. I saw that it was in the fridge and decided that this would sort of flush the LSD out of my system, but I didn't realize that it did exactly the opposite.
It reactivated the LSD.
It did! I've never really returned entirely from that trip.
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sam | October 30, 2009 11:26 AM
i think the only reason u had a basd trip was because you were with your crazy friends. if you were with a lover, you two wud be the hardest thing to seperate. i did it with my boyfriend and we are so close its unbelievable... its crazy how much acid can bring you to someone. and its not the drug...its the way u think...the way u see things...its an amazing drug but if u have one bad trip ull never do it again.. and if someone was chasing me with a knife i wudnt do it again either.
sam | October 30, 2009 11:23 AM
i did lsd alot and tis the best thing ever man. it opens u up im suprised it scared her..
anthony | September 24, 2008 7:27 PM
marty youre a fuckin idiot! LSD experience. not LCD
Anonymous | September 24, 2008 12:24 AM
ha ha ha, i like nuts!!
auramac | September 23, 2008 2:58 AM
There are those of us who never really needed LSD- at least as much as some of our friends did. I was already in a parallel universe drawing cartoons of people- tripping melted my talent, for a while. I came back but nothing was ever simple again, and yeah, people liked tripping around me. They knew they were safe and that I didn't think they were nuts.
It was like building an extra room in your house to go to- it's always there if you wanna go and just hang out- laugh,think, create. Never bored.
Marty | September 13, 2008 1:49 AM
"LCD experience..." What'd she do, smoke an alarm clock?
jp | September 12, 2008 3:23 PM
Yess! I have been wondering about this all week. I figured it was a reference to something she did when she was younger.