Iggy was so much positive after his rehab. No more self-lacerations with beer bottles (I think...)! Shortly down the road, Bowie was helping him, and things seemed to have worked out.
Bowie himself wrote some fun pieces during his own binge, including an entire album he can't remember.
"TVC 15" was apparently based upon "an episode in which Iggy Pop during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend."
That's THE BIGGEST pet peeve I have, I think.
Somebody makes smthg that earns them millions and doesn't even remember it.
Fuck, last time I got so fucked up I didn't remember stuff, I woke up naked in a scummy hotel room with some skanky girl sitting on the floor of the closet smoking her crack through a pop can and thinking the hotel bedding was frikkin Juan Valdez from the Colombian coffee logo. It was January 1989 and it was -30* in Toronto. I guess she wanted to party somewhere warmer?
All the money I'd had the night before had mysteriously vanished.
It pisses me off that one person in a bazillion can get wasted and make money at it. Getting high cost me more aggravation than it was worth, even if I didn't spend any money on the dope. Biggest reason I never got addicted to anything. Most of the druggies I knew partied themselves into bankruptcy and that's how it should be. Drugs turn people into insufferable assholes. Watching stoned assholes lose everything gives me a perverse tickle of impish glee.
Watching an addict thrive and grow fat and rich is beyond infuriating. It's cosmically wrong ffs.
"Watching an addict thrive and grow fat and rich is beyond infuriating. It's cosmically wrong ffs."
Why? He had a good time, and so did his fans. He just liked his cocaine a lot.
"Most of the druggies I knew partied themselves into bankruptcy and that's how it should be. Drugs turn people into insufferable assholes. Watching stoned assholes lose everything gives me a perverse tickle of impish glee."
Bowie was doing well-off at that time, and never went bankrupt. The worst thing he did that I can remember was having amphetamine-fueled jams, during which the heart rates of some of the band members went a little too high, and they had to graciously take leave of the studio.
Nah. There should be an intellectual property law forbidding people from getting paid for anything they don't remember writing.
Give the money to victims' services or smthg.
The vast majority of people who get so messed up that they don't remember what they're doing DO end up victimizing somebody. That one person in a bazillion who can create smthg while they're that high should not be allowed to get up in the media and give people the false belief that drugs can make people more creative bc that's just not true 99.99999% of the time.
Besides, if they don't remember creating it, were they really intellectually fit enough to call it the product of their minds/intellect anyway?