Re: (TV) Junkies as such

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Michael,
I talked about junkies.
By the way check your junkie history Ginsberg ain't no junkie.
Secondly, I think we spend too much time being in awe of such folks as
Thunders, Dee Dee, etc.  A junkie in my book is a scag, smack freak who needs
to lie, cheat and steal. A junkie is a diseased human being who for the most
part has lost all semblance of civility. That's why I don't dig them. Perhaps
I've known to many of them and I 've seen too many of them to find what you may
call "genius"  attractive. Like I once said seediness is not attractive.
Needles, vomit, spent matches and bent spoons, abscesses and lies do not
entitle you to stardom. Most of the characters we talk about on this thread are
at best bit players. Pure and simple.
Now if it takes myself and my thoughts to get this lukewarm thread going so be
it.

"Michael T. Carlucci" wrote:

>     I don't recall who wrote about junkies being useless and why would
> anyone
> want to talk to or listen to a bunch of junkies. I can give you 4 good
> reasons
> 1. Bob Dylan on Blonde On Blonde LP
> 2. The Beatles(Lennon) on The White Album LP
> 3. The Stones(Keith) -Let it Bleed thru Exile On Main St. LP's
> 4. Velvet Underground(Lou Reed)- V. U. & Nico LP
>
>     Not to mention Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, and The Ramones. Then in
> the
> literary field we have Jack Kerouac, Jim Carroll, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen
> Ginsberg, and of course who could forget William Burroughs.
>
>     With a roster like this I'm ready to take a snort myself. Actually,
> junkies are like
> most other people. They're your next door neighbor, your local taxi driver,
> subway
> drivers, lawyers, doctors, etc. etc. They come in all guises. What makes an
> obsessed
> record collector or gambler or television junkie any better than a person
> who
> does heroin? So long as the heroin addict isn't stealing from me, killing
> innocent
> people,  or hurting anyone else who cares. Does drinking alcohol(an
> addictive drug)
> sound better? Hardly. I'd rather talk with a junky any day over an
> alcoholic, though
> I sympathize with them both. Neither one really wants to be where they are.
> But
> once you're in it, it ain't easy to get out of. It eases the pain of perhaps
> a gruelling
> world, hectic lifestyle, the pressures of Wall Street. Pay a visit to an A A
> meeting
> and just listen in, you just might learn something. Doctors prescribe
> billions of dollars
> in drugs every year. But because it's a doctor who's doling out the pills
> it's okay. BULL!
> It ain't okay. That's what killed Elvis. He took pills to wake up from being
> to hung
> over from pills that put him to sleep. Every day was a vicious cycle. He
> never saw
> himself as a drug addict. He saw the Beatles and the Stones as drug addicts
> who were
> corrupting the American child's fragile eggshell mind. Here was Elvis fat
> and bloated
> with his eyes at half mast talking to President Nixon about the evils of
> drugs, yet he
> never even thought for a moment that he was a drug addict himself.
>
>     Anyway, I've known a few junkies in my day and I just have to say, don't
> criticize
> them until you've been there. They've been places you can only dream about
> and
> most have no regrets even after they've cleaned up. Thank goodness for
> people
> like Keith Richards who's allowed people to live vicariously through him
> without
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