Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Chill tunes + Alex Grey

A friend of mine owns a property which is about 40 acres of rainforest at the end of a valley near mullumbimby.  It is an amazing place, you drive down this little road which eventually becomes their driveway.  Most of the way down the road there are cow paddocks, but at the border to his property you pass over a causeway and on suddenly your in this magical wonderland where the rest of the world just doesn't exist.  The entire propert is old-growth rainforest and you just would not know that the rest of the world existed in there.
Yummy!

Anyway, I went out there yesterday to have a couple of beers with him and a few other mates.  About 5pm my mate turns to me and says "you know it's been raining for days and its sunny today".  Now this may not mean much to you, but to me it means one thing - goldtops.

Goldtops are a type of magic mushroom which grow abundantly around this area from November to March, but they need a good couple of days of rain followed by a nice sunny day for them to pop up.  It was perfect conditions.  So we all went off hunting through the paddocks up the road for a couple of hours and came back with a huge load.  Cooked up a tea and that was that.

It was an awesome night, but my head doesn't feel quite right today.  One thing I really love about hallucinogens is that, for me at least, they very rarely produce ill effects the next day, so today I'm feeling pretty good.  Nothing like a hangover or anything, but I just feel like my mind has taken too much stimulus and needs to relax.  So, I've got a great track for just such a day, I'm sitting here at home listening to the whole album and feeling a nice cool breeze wash over me.  I think when I finish this post I might go for a swim.

Anyway, without further ado, I present Leftfield with a track off the 1995 album Leftism called Release the pressure.  Very chill.  Also, I have some transcendental artwork by Alex Grey for you to enjoy!

Now i'm going for a swim :D
 


20 comments:

  1. Interesting story, what country do you hail?

    +follow

    http://xfanzix.blogspot.com

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  2. I'm from Australia. The north coast of NSW near byron bay if that means anything to you ;)

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  3. love your blog!
    following.
    http://le-nerd.blogspot.com/

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  4. Man, I'm a bit jealous, have to say. I look outside, all I see is snow, snow, and more snow. Bit of ice too. ;)

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  5. 40 acres of rain forest? Man, I wanna meet your friend lol

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  6. @Mike I live in a pretty rural area so theres lots of big properties around. And I've gotta say it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, theres a pretty big conservation culture up here so there's lots of properties which were either never cleared or have had the rainforest regenerated.

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  7. i'll come and visit you!
    edit: could you please disable captcha?

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  8. cool thanks for this nice post!

    http://all-around-toto.blogspot.com/

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  9. This is awesome, I've never heard of that kind of shroom before

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  10. Love your blog, man; you seem to be into psychedelia. Following.

    Related: http://koffieshopdiaries.blogspot.com/

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  11. wonderful blog indeed..i met alex grey once briefly at a festival in oregon. captivating man. following as well.

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  12. Lol those colors makes me want to find some LSD, I.E. Mold and trip out on it.

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  13. You have no idea how much I love to chill

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  14. Those goldtops look delish...the shrooms we get in the Uk always taste of 'mud', like an 'earthy' taste to them no matter how much you try to mask it

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  15. Ah I was just about to say: Isn't that Alex Grey on your icon?

    Nice man. You a Tool fan by any chance? If so, they're in production of their new album.

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  16. Man those are some really neat pictures.

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  17. I would love to someday visit the chapel that Alex Grey made. His paintings are gigantic, I could only imagine standing in front of one in person.

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  18. @Berate - I am a tool fan, I like most music really, as long as its good. Looking forward to the new album.

    @phil - Yeah the goldtops here also have an earthy tase, and actually just taste bad. I usually boil them up in water on the stove and then mix with liberal amounts of instant coffee and sugar - it helps ;)

    @everyone - thanks for the comments! I'll be checking out all your blogs :D

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