Hard News: Acid Man
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judgmental assumptions, about people recovering from addiction/alcoholism or any-other life threatening illness.
read that as partly evening the aren't drugs cool vibe of this thread, and partly anger at said burnouts who throw away their talent. you love these people but at the same time its hard not to be pissed off at them for fucking up their gift.
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perhaps visual art works differently with drugs but its pretty well documented the effect it has on the creativity and productivity of ones career. There are exceptions, but not many.
The counterpoint is the list of artists of various sorts who have had their talented careers cut short through drug overdoses. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison (possibly), Janis Joplin. Elvis's death was possibly complicated by his addiction to pills. etc etc. Kurt Cobain shot himself, but I'm guessing his use of drugs didn't help his state of mind.
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And John Entwistle. And Keith Moon. The list is nearly endless. And poor old David Bowie can't remember several years of his life...
I mainly blame racquetball at 4am followed by a mighty bathroom visit for Elvis' demise, though. :)
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The counterpoint is the list of artists of various sorts who have had their talented careers cut short through drug overdoses. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison (possibly), Janis Joplin. Elvis's death was possibly complicated by his addiction to pills. etc etc. Kurt Cobain shot himself, but I'm guessing his use of drugs didn't help his state of mind.
Janis: heroin and alcohol
Jimi: red wine and sleeping pills; choked on vomit
Jim: alcohol abuse, possible ingestion of heroin
Kurt: severe depressive illness, self-medicated with heroin
So there's a bit of a pattern there.
On the other hand, as Danielle pointed out, there's a long and storied history of the association of various drugs with movements in popular music, on the part of both the artists and the fans: the Beatles and whatever; reggae and pot; punk rock and speed; the dance revolution and ecstasy. The one that really doesn't seem to produce good music is cocaine. Ask Oasis.
There's a difference between using drugs and being a casualty: most people do the former, a few troubled souls take the latter path. Amy Winehouse has me worried ...
Just don't do heroin.
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The one that really doesn't seem to produce good music is cocaine.
Damn. Bowie made his best records on that ....
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a few troubled souls take the latter path
a few is being a bit generous to your argument. I assume you're only accounting for the fatalities as being a casualty.
I'd count the incredible music and art that didn't make it to the real world through the bottomless void that can be drug preoccupation.
you don't have to die to have the life sucked out of you.
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Bit of a problem really.
maybe we need drug trainers, who manage a clients needs based on their target creativity, but I think we have those already, doctor and dealers I think they're called, neither of which have the patients creative productivity in mind though.
you're right, it is a problem
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