My Interview with Perry

[bman]

So is he still a doper??

[hydro]

So is he still a doper??

um I think he was just making a joke.
and if he does ever get the urge to fix or whatever Etty needs to kick his ass!!!!
back in the day it might have been cool and fun to be all doped out but now i would be heartbroken to know Perry stuck a needle in his arm or did any kind of hard drugs.It just wouldnt be cool anymore it would be very sad
I guess thats what getting old does to ya!
Perry is a survivor!!I think his greatest and most meaningful work is still to come!!

[Mike]

So is he still a doper??

I'm not going to put words into Perry's mouth but if forced to guess I'd say he was talking about

[Shroomy]

So is he still a doper??

um I think he was just making a joke.
and if he does ever get the urge to fix or whatever Etty needs to kick his ass!!!!
back in the day it might have been cool and fun to be all doped out but now i would be heartbroken to know Perry stuck a needle in his arm or did any kind of hard drugs.It just wouldnt be cool anymore it would be very sad
I guess thats what getting old does to ya!
Perry is a survivor!!I think his greatest and most meaningful work is still to come!!

we all need you Perry stay strong!!
just smoke pot

THC isn't a drug? Perry said he still loves dope but chooses not to do it for family reasons. Nothing sad about doing something you love doing. Author William Burroughs used Heroin for most of his life and lived happily to the age of 83.

[OzMic]

i cant wait til i'm old with a script for morphine sulphate
for my bionic leg or sumpin...heheheee
Rock on Mr. Farrell

[Mike]

We're getting close to the end with this question.
Just one more after it and we can wrap this up.
I was laughing and at times in disbelief listening to Perry answer this one.

Mike: We've got two more here if you've got time. Here’s another one from nexis. He wants to know, do you miss your friendship with Timothy Leary and what did you learn from him?

Perry: Well the most important thing I learned from Tim Leary was to stay young at heart. Always be interested in what’s happening. That's why I go back to… here's a man who… he was onto the Internet before anybody else I knew. He was surfing the web and thinking about what the web could be used for. He was the first person… I saw him in his room, in his computer room, doing his thing. So what he meant to me was you should always be interested in what’s going on… all the current things. Create a community of friends that are on the cutting edge and that are artistic; that are artists. Never grow old. You can always stay young at heart. I would go to his house and meet people. The social connections I would make with Tim... I would meet people… I met Sean Lennon over there and I met the fellow who does MDMA with dolphins at the Scripps Clinic down in San Diego, and amazing artists, Eileen Getty, and Robert Williams- just amazing artists and scientists. We'd all go there and we would party and socialize and discuss art, some politics but Tim hated Republicans.

Mike: (laughing)

Perry: So we didn't talk too much about politics because politics is generally a bad conversation at these kinds of things. But, he never slowed down. I remember the last days at Tim's house. He was having races in the street up Sunset Blvd with his wheelchair. We were rushing him up the street. He would race cars.

Mike: You’re kidding me!

Perry: People would see this man who was practically a corpse and it was Tim Leary.

Mike: WOW!

Perry: (laughing) He never quit. He never gave up. So he’ll always be remembered with the youth culture and associated with it even at his age. At age 75, he was still on the cutting age and still ahead of all of us.

[hydro]

So is he still a doper??

um I think he was just making a joke.
and if he does ever get the urge to fix or whatever Etty needs to kick his ass!!!!
back in the day it might have been cool and fun to be all doped out but now i would be heartbroken to know Perry stuck a needle in his arm or did any kind of hard drugs.It just wouldnt be cool anymore it would be very sad
I guess thats what getting old does to ya!
Perry is a survivor!!I think his greatest and most meaningful work is still to come!!

we all need you Perry stay strong!!
just smoke pot

THC isn't a drug? Perry said he still loves dope but chooses not to do it for family reasons. Nothing sad about doing something you love doing. Author William Burroughs used Heroin for most of his life and lived happily to the age of 83.

yeah THC is a drug but not a "hard drug"
and from what ive read about William Burroughs he didnt seem to happy about killing his wife and not having a close relationship with his son due to heroin.and I believe his son died from drugs
thats sad

[slowdiver]

One more time, Nothing's Shocking, thank you to exist!
:hello:

[SR]

I went to see Black Rider ( ) at the Music Center here in L.A. last year....I was really excited ofcourse because Tom Waits is an artist attention should be paid. Burroughs wrote the libretto, and I was quite disappointed. In his defense, it must have been hard to write a tragic story to the Black Riders' music....but he missed sharply....whether it was farcical, poignant, determined, reminiscent, diabolical, or joyous, I got the impression of a man who just couldn't bring himself to go there. Maybe just too uncomfortable to go deep; maybe too shallow compared to his own experience?

I usually judge art based on either what I learn or what the piece compels in me, so I can't say the experience was meaningless. Maybe my expectations were too high. Context counts.

[OzMic]

what does it take em...like two sentences until he starts in with the butt juice shit...yeah...he lowered his pants below his knees this time....and the last time
and the time before that....GREAT...