tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post5208626744525087233..comments2024-03-27T03:07:51.895+00:00Comments on Alone in the Labyrinth: Creativity, Drugs,Temperance Joeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11685436746460917538noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-83912344259462274972020-01-03T12:27:33.192+00:002020-01-03T12:27:33.192+00:00Thanks for picking out the time to discuss this, I...Thanks for picking out the time to discuss this, I feel great about it and love studying more on this topic. It is extremely helpful for me. Thanks for such a valuable help again. <a href="http://www.xn----3hcgtcpkcea6a.org.il/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%94/" rel="nofollow">גמילה מחשיש</a>UsamaAkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967471967400289326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-66921127804618913922019-10-27T15:05:42.176+00:002019-10-27T15:05:42.176+00:00I posted this as comment instead of a reply...
Wo...I posted this as comment instead of a reply...<br /><br />Wow,much as I'm sorry for the loss of your comment I'm excited to hear of someone reading both blogs! I've really neglected Psychocartography these past few years, in part because of lifestyle changes but also because I very much felt like I was shouting into the void with that one, despite the relatively heavy site traffic. It is very rewarding to hear that you have found both inspiring.<br /><br />I'm afraid that I've not read Scarab, nor am I familiar with it. The title of this blog came because I was reading Borges and doing a lot of solitaire roleplay back in 2015 (an account of one playthrough I actually posted). It's also the title of a book published in 2018 (a compilation of blog posts by someone called Hugh Curtler), google searches for which are a common referring URL to this site.Joeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685436746460917538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-52936967706855310862019-10-27T05:23:18.378+00:002019-10-27T05:23:18.378+00:00Creativity is an elusive thing. I can come up wit...Creativity is an elusive thing. I can come up with a lot of ideas, but most of them are bad. And then when you do have a good one, you have to *execute*, which can be just as difficult. <br /><br />I have no doubt that drugs can enhance creativity, but drug abuse can have a tremendeously negative impact on people. Cannabis is probably the safest (it's safer than alcohol) but for some individuals even that can be harmful to one's life and happiness in the long run. Bravo for sharing!Ancalagon_TBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602961033235852856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-70877774999954988162019-10-25T11:25:53.628+00:002019-10-25T11:25:53.628+00:00Wow,much as I'm sorry for the loss of your com...Wow,much as I'm sorry for the loss of your comment I'm excited to hear of someone reading both blogs! I've really neglected <i>Psychocartography</i> these past few years, in part because of lifestyle changes but also because I very much felt like I was shouting into the void with that one, despite the relatively heavy site traffic. It is very rewarding to hear that you have found both inspiring. <br /><br />I'm afraid that I've not read Scarab, nor am I familiar with it. The title of this blog came because I was reading Borges and doing a lot of solitaire roleplay back in 2015 (an account of one playthrough I actually posted). It's also the title of a book published in 2018 (a compilation of blog posts by someone called Hugh Curtler), google searches for which are a common referring URL to this site.Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-68998624370232716362019-10-22T22:34:42.821+00:002019-10-22T22:34:42.821+00:00Well... I just wrote an extensive reply and accide...Well... I just wrote an extensive reply and accidentally navigated over to Psychocartography by accident, losing everything. :-P I'm a bit too tired to sally forth and attempt to salvage it, so I'll just say: <br /><br />I've enjoyed your work here and on P-Cart, and have drawn inspiration from both. If you want to explore something Morrisonian, I would recommend Invisibles. Based on what I have seen of your stuff, I believe it's in your bailiwick. Speaking of Vertigo Imprint comics... have you ever read Scarab? The title of this blog reminds me of it.Christopher MIdyettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00015107543115634998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-71475833914144037852019-10-21T19:37:12.554+00:002019-10-21T19:37:12.554+00:00@Alone in the Labyrinth, it was. I don't have ...@Alone in the Labyrinth, it was. I don't have drug dependency, but dependency could be not only in drugs and I found your thoughts applicable to some of my situations. <br /><br />I didn't abandon the noise.sans.signal, but I post quite rarely as a matter of course. Thank you for giving it a shot. Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-24349809302011158992019-10-21T04:58:48.343+00:002019-10-21T04:58:48.343+00:00This is.... eerily familiar, right down to the mil...This is.... eerily familiar, right down to the milk crates of notebooks! I must say that I was rarely able to maintain the level of composure you profess, however, and was much more... cyclic? The other difference is the jujitsu, and I occasionally wonder how different things might have been had I found a physical outlet earlier.<br /><br />I've actually never read the Invisibles, but have seen Morrison describe his inspiration in multiple interviews with him. Actually, someone mentioned Morrison in an exchange on Reddit recently (in reference to his New X-Men)... I think the universe might be trying to tell me something, especially as I saw some Zoids for sale in a toy store and started explaining to my wife how Grant Morrison's first job was writing mini-comics to go with these robot dinosaurs...Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-86146239190353825802019-10-21T04:06:20.595+00:002019-10-21T04:06:20.595+00:00Also I just looked through your blog Noise Sans Si...Also I just looked through your blog Noise Sans Signal blog: it's really great, I hope you find the time to get back to it in the future. Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-65672538103628591132019-10-21T04:04:28.636+00:002019-10-21T04:04:28.636+00:00(that's not to say that I wasn't already n...(that's not to say that I wasn't already nervous and paranoid and forgetful)Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-6746718976243031732019-10-21T03:53:33.386+00:002019-10-21T03:53:33.386+00:00Yeah I definitely think this is one of the reasons...Yeah I definitely think this is one of the reasons I got into them, too. Plus the people who were getting caned all the time had the best tunes. The restaurant episode sounds interesting... do you think you were just hyper focused and attentive?<br /><br />Actually, you've reminded me of another lost piece of adolescent culture: there was sort of this virtue attached to being a "messhead", which incorporated behaviours like forgetfulness, paranoia, being easily amused and/or surprised... basically, all of the side effects of drugs but as part of everyday behaviour. It was subtle, but I can state with certainty that I exaggerated these behaviours on my part in order to gain further currency with the drugs crowd.<br /> Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-8496621172272601802019-10-21T03:48:01.072+00:002019-10-21T03:48:01.072+00:00Thank you for reading it. I felt a little bit disa...Thank you for reading it. I felt a little bit disappointed with how things went towards the end, I thought I had something useful or interesting to say but I think it started to collapse into cliches towards the end... so if it was useful to you in anyway then it was worth it.Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-22021018310708300852019-10-20T20:05:37.637+00:002019-10-20T20:05:37.637+00:00I was more on than off acid and mushrooms during t...I was more on than off acid and mushrooms during the 90's and early 2000's. I would frequently supplement my psychotropic intake with ephedrine in various forms. If this conjures images of a spastic Energizer Bunny with a torrent of high grade nonsense pouring from his mouth like a prison hose, then I am sad to disabuse you of such an amusing visual. <br /><br />Like the Green Destiny sword, I mastered holding by buzz in stillness. No one would suspect that there was enough energy humming just under my skin to explode into instant action at any time, no matter the challenge; physical or mental (Much like the Terrible Old Man, excuse me, the Horrible Old Man's restaurant experience above). I had a strong sense of self during that time and was thoroughly immersed in my own sense of personal epic. I was at the height of my powers, playing in bands, and studying jujitsu. I was also running an Amber: Diceless game which lasted, on and off, for 12 years. In short, I had a matrix of interests to channel my energy into at any given time. <br /><br />I have milk crates full of notebooks from that period, mostly containing gaming, but also poems, stories, and songs. It was a very productive era, and I loved nothing more than sitting on the back deck of my house with a pot of coffee and an old school typewriter, exorcising my creative demons upon the page as I navigated the labyrinth of thrumming ideoplasm behind my eyes; except, perhaps, running the games which came from said exorcism. <br /><br />I wanted to let you know that I took something very valuable from these words you took the time to write. You reminded me of many things which are part of the process of remaining a healthy human being at a time when I am floundering. So thank you for that.<br /><br />Also... your "weirdness", aberrant thought processes, whatever you want to call it, incite a powerful feeling of kinship in me. Speaking of text adventures from Malkuth to Kether, conceived during a fever dream, is something I can relate to, believe it or not. I ran a crossover game in the WoD, set during 1928 (just before the raid on Innsmouth), which was strongly influenced by my favorite comic at the time, Grant Morrison's Invisibles. Did you know that he conceived the story of the Invisibles while on a hash trip in Kathmandu during an alien abduction "hallucination"? He also was inspired mid-series by visions he had while suffering a staph infection.Christopher MIdyettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00015107543115634998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-52761313474821994942019-10-20T14:27:26.717+00:002019-10-20T14:27:26.717+00:00In the mid 90s the “you’re so weird you must be on...In the mid 90s the “you’re so weird you must be on drugs” led to me pretending to be on drugs so I could continue to be weird. Which eventually led to actually using drugs. I was once on acid in a restaurant and was later told that it was the best behaved I’d been in a while. People’s permissiveness of how one can behave is so strange.Horrible Old Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515840430812106807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-41035278672353496392019-10-19T17:35:26.090+00:002019-10-19T17:35:26.090+00:00Thank you for writing this.Thank you for writing this.Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.com