Not to go into ridiculous talks that coffeine is also drug etc., I've had DXM, salvia, marihuana, hash, lsd, coke and shrooms and ayahuasca. I think that's all.
The theme of the latest Budrus album was influenced by a shroom trip in a small island. I can't be around people when the trip starts. They seem so annoying, weak and all they do is bad for me. We were 4 on the island so 3 of them were chatting, drinking, sitting on the bench laughing and I was going in circles around the island, which was covered in snow up to knees. So during that brainstorm of several hours, I've had those "canine visions" about human corpses being eaten by dogs and so on. I like this though I do it once in a couple of years. Now the last time I've had them was 5 years ago or so. It's time to get some more.
As for ayahuasca, experiences were interesting. I have a fear of water so it was very difficult time sitting by the lake, but apart from it tasting awful, experiences are interesting.
Coke is shit and it gave me nothing
I've tried lsd just this year. I should try it sober and perhaps the dosage should be right because apart from that I was awake for quite a long time and had some interesting moments next day, nothing happened. Slight ripples on the walls. Since I went to a bar to have a beer and something to eat after the night under lsd, and stayed there, then after a few beers, I had another piece of it, I remember aggression and trying to fight someone, and then some modern YOLO kids from Britain came into the bar, started talking some shit, so I asked if they truly have such large penises as I could tell by their talks, then took off my pants and asked to measure ours telling that Lithuanians has extremely small penises and they left. So nothing very sacred about it. Should read more Groff and avoid alcohol.
dxm was long time ago, it was ok, salvia was the same.
Marihuana and hash - from time to have a joint it's ok, but it's also that I don't like to be around people after smoke. Some of them starts to laugh all the time, be funny or whatever and I usually don't understand it.
As for creations under influence, some beer is ok for me because after the amount is exceeded, the sense of quality is lost and you enjoy bleeps and blops and if I am recording something, then the next morning many questions arises why I thought this was good.. But I like a few beers when playing and in between. It gives concentration and easiness at the same time. But that maybe the sort of "ritual" already - to go to studio, sit on the sofa, think about what you will be doing, open a beer, connect the cables, play some test sounds, after everything is connected, have a cigarette and drink that first beer to the end while just thinking about the sound I want to have, the direction of it and so on. I guess if I'd remove beer from studio work, it would become quite a different experience and I can't imagine myself playing while sipping tea.
I don't quite know why one should hate one or another drug. I guess it's people that one is referring to. A few weeks ago I had a little chat with a guy whom I know a little and who has converted to all sorts of traditional medicine things, not using alcohol, but just weed and all that spiritual things. So he said that he is against alcohol because alcohol is responsible for lots of bad things in his life and overall. When I asked to explain, he said that when he was drinking, he was constantly getting into fights and getting with some girls that are not his wife and so on. So he chose to run away, live in the forest, writing about how wrong is alcohol and how good is all that traditional medicine etc. This is pathetic to have your own weaknesses transferred onto some substance and thus making yourself clear of it.
