I'M GETTING TROUBLE AGAIN from nasty neighbours but, as the song says (see below) "I don't wanna talk about it"... all I will say is that when I threatened to call police the poison person in question quickly fled!One of very few vaguely interesting things I've read about drugs recently came from an Ecstasy Fact Sheet I picked up in the drugs agency. It was actually a good 4 or more sides of closely typed foolscap/A4...
"Are people still taking that?" I thought, and read on. Now some of the old hippie types at ecstasy.org-type websites would say that MDMA (ecstasy) is a "heart-opening substance)... it's basically an upper that, as well as making you feel excited (like you're at the best party that ever was, hearing the greatest music, etc.. etc...) it actually does, to recoin some 1960s-speak, make you feel full of "peace and love"... quite amazingly so, in fact.
One of my more curmudgeonly friends, who preferred nasty old speed, told me "but I don't want to sit in the corner of the rave feeling like Buddha" (exactly the effect I took it for!)
Anyway this new (to me) info told me that ecstasy does not elicit any feelings that are not inside you anyway...
... which is one of the most positive things I have ever read... meaning that I am full of the most amazingly transcendental joy it breaks the limits of description.
To put it another way, I suddenly realized something I suppose I've always secretly known all along: that you don't need drugs to feel "high"!
After reading this, I decided to contact this Inner Joy: and suddenly I did. It was a couple of weeks ago and I was trotting mundanely back from the chicken shop with my £1 special deal (+ piece + fries), and I thought about what I'd read and ~ wow! Amazing! I did get right directly in touch with this amazing joy inside me!
That is the happiest thing that's happened to me for a long time..!
Videos:
Everything But The Girl: I Don't Wanna Talk About It
Everything But The Girl: Missing
This one got to number one time back in the late 80s (if I remember rightly...)
a v nice tune.
The group's name, btw, comes from their original ad in Melody Maker or the NME magazine "everything but the girl" (ie we have a group put together but we need a sweet singin' vocalist) and she does sing sweet...
This, however, is probably their greatest and most memorable hit:~
Everything But The Girl: Missing (club mix)
ps Bashful's name should really be バシフルさん Bashifuru-san (far as I know, that's the nearest Japanese equivalent...)
and here is the dictionary definition for "itchy":
かゆがってさん (that is Kayugatte-san)
Bashful would be 内気さん (Uchiki-san)
Spherical is 丸さん Maru-san
(the katakana readings given yesterday are phonetic transliterations (yes: Iichi-san, Bashifuru-san and Suherikuru-san are the nearest the Japanese can get in their own language to Itchy-Bashful-Spherical!
PS yesterday's title Frank was a pun I forgot to elucidate on the former British National Drugs Helpline "Talk to Frank" ~ clickonit to see...
Your neighbours sound like ding dongs. Nobody ever Fs with me that way coz I would drop them and they can tell by the look on my face. I come from crazy Scottish lineage and it's the Glasgow kiss all the way for tools. (Not really, that wouldn't be too lady like). Ya want me to come over there a TCB WWF styles? ;)
ReplyDeleteyou don't need drugs to feel "high"!
ReplyDeleteWhy yes, certainly true. I like the marijuana though however from time to time. Gosh, sex, music, and food on that stuff is incredible! And I have never done anything beyond that, nor do I want to run the risk of starting an addiction.
try exercise Gledwood... thats what gives me my buzz why do you think iam always down the gym :-) its the only thing that stops me from going mad !!
ReplyDeleteAre we talking small breakthrough here! A natural high! Go you good Gleds. As for Ecstacy, very prevalent party drug here but is quickly being eclipsed by cocaine. (So my nephew tells me and he would know!)
ReplyDeleteHow funny that they ran when you threatened them with the PoPo!
ReplyDeleteGood for you Gleds!
"I get high from life" was always my line at parties :) Those video clips are FUNNY! I once worked in a shop named 'Everything but the Girl" but had no idea it was named after the band. Quite a few mysteries have now been answered now ;)
ReplyDeleteYOU CONTACTED YOUR INNER JOY!!!!
I get some of my best "highs" from natural things...my surroundings when I'm at the river, exercise (as someone mentioned). You just need to learn to tap into those feelings again gleds.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're recognizing that you don't necessarily need drugs to experience good feelings.
xo
Just checking in to say hello. I've had my hands full with work and am so tired in the evening that I just manage to post my blog and read what friends are up to and I often want to comment and then I just forget what I was going to write anyway. But I do read and keep up :)
ReplyDeleteJeez, Gleds, your neighbours sound like real fruit loops...however, sounds like the threat of the coppers did the trick.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me like you're coming along nicely, Gleds, being able to get in touch with your inner self as you did, and without drugs...congratulations! You're on the way up, my friend.
BTW Gleds, I have a message from Liz. Apparently, somehow, you keep crashing her puta and that's why she hasn't commented. How did you do that???
ReplyDeleteReally? There's lots of joy beaming inside of me? Haha, I wonder where it's hiding... oh wait, I laughed, there it is.
ReplyDeleteBTW, thanks for commenting my blog, I didn't like realize that you had until just now, but I replied and stuff...! = )
Keep tapping into your newly found inner joy Gleds and add to it the knowledge that you have the power of the Police threat to keep the neighbour from causing you problems.
ReplyDeleteSmiles and hugs to you *!*
Hi there old friend! It looks like you've had quite a bit going on. Glad you're doing well..
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry your still having problems, but at least the threat of the law made s/he take off.
ReplyDeleteI'm proud of you still doing rehab. Hang in there.
Janice~
Eileen: crazy neighbours!
ReplyDeleteWat: don't need drugs... but what a revelation that was to me (how sad!!)
Sally: xrcise sposedly boosts those opioid-endorphines...
Baino: don't they take a thing called "fantasy" as well ... I think it's what here was called GBH/GHB... seawater flavoured something to put partygoers on yet another planet...
Monogram: twas like waving a magic wand!!
ReplyDeleteAnon: I know how cool was that!
I still remember going out clubbing straight. Hardly any difference from going out on E...
xcept fresh as a daisy next morning...
Debs: I'm going to tap into all that stuff a little bit more (if I can)... why not permanently..??
Nicole: that's OK. I'm glad things r going well with you and massive congratulations on the job! Bet that felt it was never going to happen..!!
Pussinboots: on the way up... I certainly hope so! I'm inspired by the story of my next book. it is an historical novel with an EPIC THEME!
ReplyDeletePOOR LIZ I was wondering why I don't hear from her... and she SAID something went wrong with her computer viz my blog... I don't know what on earth why..(??!?...??)
Lucinda: well that's what the mdma leaflet said... I always assumed XTC made you feel high as it flushes loads of serotonin through the brain... just as speed and coke do an equivalent thing with dopamine and E just feels better as serotonin's a more luxurious neurotransmitter... (call me cynical, but!)
hey I'm just about to pop back round again... sorry about last time so typical 4 bloody mins left! that's my life 4u...
Bimbimbie: I know it seems like I've got in touch with my Higher Power in more ways than one..(!!)
;->...
Cinn: hey there long time no see! I'm trotting round yours like a tubby roborovski in two shakes of a stubby hammy's tag-tail...
Janice: sorry you got left off the end there I didn't realize you were the last comment... rehab: I don't know where precisely to GO yet though...
ReplyDeleteThis is my recollection of X too, absolute love and kindness. I miss it. I hope I never touch it again, but i miss it just the same.
ReplyDeleteit used to be fantastic, I know
ReplyDeleteI don't know I ever want to touch it either
I prefer feeling "fresh as a daisy" 1st thing in the morning...