Senora Lilly
At the end of the gig at the biker bar in San Jose we began breaking down our gear. A tall, dark, serious-looking woman approached us. She wore a body-length, black-leather trench coat and was very beautiful in an eccentric, intimidating sort of way. She exuded a penetrating sophistication although didn't seem entirely out of place in this dirty, rowdy bar. After rocking non stop through the first set we played a much more drony and ethereal second set. In a sexy Catalonian accent this women praised our music and explained that she had a very unusual event she'd like us to play for. She offered $1000 if we'd drive down to a private party in the Santa Cruz mountains the following weekend. Her parting words were, "leave your inhibitions at home and expect the bizarre."
All week we waited patiently for the upcoming gig. With a certain musician's skepticism we doubted the $1000 offer and also the potential for anything to out-bizarre our already inflated sense of the boundaries of social normalcy. Sooo.. Saturday afternoon finally arrived and we packed the van and rolled down to route 9. We followed her directions through the woods as the sun began to set. We wound around through all these narrow mountain roads. Way back in the middle of stix-ville. Not too far from the Mystery Spot. We had serious doubts. But then finally we rounded a last turn and saw this gorgeous wooden/glass modern house nestled atop a rock outcropping on the side of a huge cliff. NICE! We pull in and there are already 30 or 40 cars lining the driveway. We ring the doorbell and the same lady answers. This time she's wearing nothing. Her long, curvaceous body is painted in green scales as if she's a lizard. Both her nipples are pierced with these pointy spikes. Her eyes are blazing green and yellow with cat-eye contacts (or something??). As we take in the lavish and cavernous interior of this hill-top mansion our jaws literally fall to the floor. Most of the guests are also naked, but all wear markings, paintings or costumes of different animals. Really convincing costumes too. Senora Lilly introduces herself and thanks us for coming. She pulls a check for $1000 out of her hair and hands it to us. She then tells us to set up on the elaborate stage in the corner of the grand room. She walks with us back to our van and explains that this party is to be a spiritual exercise for practitioners of ancient Zoroastrianism. People flew in from around the world to be here this evening. The party goers would be channelling their "familiar" on this night. Which meant that they'd be communing with their spirit animal. Senora Lilly mentioned that the Zoroaster band scheduled to play had lost it's drummer in a freak body-surfing accident and so she had followed an intuition to the biker bar the week before, where she listened and then asked us to fill in.
Three hours later the room is thick and pungent. The huge glass windows drip with condensation. The vibe has led us to our trippiest, most disharmonious weirdness. Vexed, unsyncopated polyrhythms. Screeching, feedback-laden loops. Driving, uncompromising pulses of discordant chaos. The crowd of a hundred or so now-naked animals writhe and dance to in the energy of the room. Crazy shit has been going down right in front of us. The people aren't really interacting or watching the band, we're really just providing the atmospheric soundscape in the background. After an hour or so of milling about and partying like your typical get-together. These Animalistic Zoroastrians began howling, calling, scratching and jumping. Basically acting out the essence of their Familiars. Things quickly became more and more raucous, with lion-women chasing zebra men and vulture men swooping down on rabbit women. The swooping and chasing and clawing and scratching soon turned to caressing and grabbing and grinding and cooing. Sweaty pods of dancing/fucking/pawing people/animals grouped together in various parts of the room. Their howls and laughter echoed through the high ceilings. Their reflections danced between the windows. Simultaneously some folks would be running at top speed around the room. Leaping over sofas and furniture. All in some elaborate interpretive dance meant to coax the genetic animal seed from their fenced-in human lattices of decorum and grace.
We just looked at each other occasionally with the biggest shit-eating grins on our faces. This was fucking amazing!
Kew photo (master of the in-the-bushes-above-the-break lineup shot)
Frist!
Posted by: Frist Poster at April 27, 2006 10:31 AMfirst and wish I were there at the party....I'll be the snake.
Posted by: dr. dawn at April 27, 2006 10:35 AMAnyone know of any non reservation campsites down by Big Basin?
Posted by: mjs at April 27, 2006 10:43 AMGood pics of an empty heaving day in mid-beach.
Scroll through and you may recognize a few of those challenging themselves.
http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?eventthumbs?event=0G1D000F
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 10:54 AMPeople giving up on windsurfing never got good.
It's one of the most difficult, equipment intensive sports and subject to fickle weather conditions, but one of the most rewarding.
With the advent of kiting many have predicted it's demise, but windsurfers have continued to explore what can be done with wind and water.
For me, it's the ultimate high wind sport.
Posted by: Sander at April 27, 2006 10:57 AMWhen the wind backs down below 20, bust out the kite. When the wind's under 10, go surf. It's all good.
nice story! reminded me of that movie society. that is one of the weirdest movies ever.
i like those pics. where is ocen beach?
Posted by: lerm at April 27, 2006 10:58 AMparty animals
Posted by: i loved the party at April 27, 2006 11:08 AMRight or wrong I loved the weed discussion yesterday.
One final question. Can the frequent puffers out there let me know how much you consume on average per month? I'm about 2 qtrs per month and can't tell if that classifies me as stoner, major stoner or walking plant.
Posted by: EG Pimp at April 27, 2006 11:29 AMI tend to go through about an eighth a month.
keep pimpin pimp.
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Posted by: Hell's Angel and Kaiser have no beef at April 27, 2006 11:32 AMpimp, if you're ever in the bay area we should definitely hit up a jam. We have a (mostly) unused Rhodes in our studio.
Posted by: e at April 27, 2006 11:32 AMwalking plant
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 11:33 AMan 8th and a half a week
Posted by: stoney at April 27, 2006 11:37 AMI'm not sure how much weight it all adds up to but I smoke two joints in the morning, 2 joints at night and 2 joints after I smoke 2 joints and then I smoke 2 more?
Posted by: Confused at April 27, 2006 11:40 AMConfused for president!
Posted by: for president guy at April 27, 2006 11:42 AMan eighth a week
Posted by: KIX at April 27, 2006 11:43 AMabout 1/4 per month... our discussion's making me want to cut back
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 11:43 AMPlant? Rainforest!!! :) Then again, I'm an non-smoker-enjoy.
Posted by: welle at April 27, 2006 11:44 AMWhat years did Kew attend Humboldt State?
Posted by: Senor Humboldt at April 27, 2006 11:44 AMconfused, I think you meant that you smoke 2 joints BEFORE you smoke 2 joints.... then you smoke 2 more
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 11:47 AMe - I'd love that. I may be back out in May. I'll let you know if it happens.
Here's what the trio has been up to lately:
So What Remix
Posted by: EG Pimp at April 27, 2006 11:48 AMNo.
Posted by: Confused at April 27, 2006 11:50 AMThe one thing that I know for sure is that I am not an addict. I can wait until after I smoke 2 joints to smoke the other 2.
every Friday at 5:00 on KFOG
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 11:55 AMI go through between an eight and a quarter a month.
Posted by: tucker at April 27, 2006 11:59 AMAnyone know which pot clubs take visa? I like accruing miles on my card, and since Green Cross temporarily closed I'm having to cash it.
Posted by: Mile maker. at April 27, 2006 12:00 PMI'm not an addict. I can quit any time I want.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 12:12 PMdude e...
that was a great anecdote. straight outta t. pynchon
Posted by: korewin at April 27, 2006 12:13 PMstyle....crying of lot 49. nice.
EG Pimp. We need to quantify. Is this two quarters of crispy dry brown mex, or sticky gooey yellow-crystal-laden sensimilla hydroponic?
If you don't smoke, can you still fall asleep?
Do you lose weight if you stop?
If you stop, are you in a bitchy mood every day until you start again?
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 12:16 PMalso are you using your supply to smoke out friends all the time?
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 12:19 PMa friend with weed is better than a friend in need.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 12:29 PMSmoking weed.
Posted by: _ at April 27, 2006 12:33 PM
Posted by: Surfseeker7 at April 27, 2006 12:42 PMExcellant questions:
1. Most the stuff I'm getting back here is not kind, gooey, funk bud that I used to get in CA. But it's not mexican dirt weed either. It's a home grown hydro of medium quality.
Posted by: EG Pimp at April 27, 2006 12:46 PM2. If I don't smoke I can still fall asleep fine. Note that if I don't smoke I have lucid dreams. E talked about this before. Weed someone inhibits dreaming?
3.I do not lose weight if I stop.
4. I do become irritable after stopping.
5. I only smoke out one other dude but no more than an 1/8 per month.
EG Pimp-
I have stopped smoking recently, but for the last 20 years on average, I would say that I was a once a day smoker.
Some time ago I began to track my intake by the frequency of purchases, similar to what you are saying with your 2 1/4s a month.
By my estimation, you are going through a shitload of weed, dude.
In France they would call you a stoner royale,
'cause your doing more than a quarterpound a year at that rate.
Not jucging by the way because it is up to the individual to monitor their own intake. But jeez, leave some for the Phish.
Posted by: friend #1 at April 27, 2006 12:48 PMIf it's cool for you and yours pimp, then i think it's cool. My friend smokes about the same amount as you. He's always rolling huge spliffs and therefor goes through a lot. He's currently at Berkeley school of Business and ripping shit up. He's always been on top of everything. It's all in how you live it.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 12:56 PMdamn those hell's angles' chicks are smokin'!
Posted by: does that make me crazy? at April 27, 2006 01:00 PMAnd remeber weed smokers. We have an excuse for failing!
Posted by: whats your excuse? at April 27, 2006 01:03 PMCrazy - 'word' on the biker chicks
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 01:04 PMi would rather do anna nichole smith
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 01:08 PM.jpg)
Posted by: Hells Angels have no beef with smokers at April 27, 2006 01:11 PMA lot of my friends smoke all the time, but I never really liked it. Just makes me quiet
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 01:48 PMand boring. I like to drink though. It's a social drug for me. Love to go to bars and meet new people and talk story.
Funny how different drugs have different effects on people.
Different drugs effects have always tripped me out too...(ha, ha). But seriously, when on rare occasion I smoke, I find drunk people to be boorish and lame. But when I smoke with stoners, i.e. daily smokers, I find them kinda boring, as their high isn't nearly as high as mine (being a lightweight) so they really just act kinda normal, while I'm flying.
The best is to be an occasional smoker. You don't have to give it up entirely, but you can have it on special occasions, like you would have Champagne. I do feel for the daily smokers out there and their struggles. There are a lot of addictions people deal with. This may not be the worst, but for my stoner friends who had to quit it took some serious will power.
Posted by: Surfseeker7 at April 27, 2006 01:59 PMniceness business opportunity---
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/rfs/155201908.html
Posted by: snake at April 27, 2006 02:01 PMA j a day. E, I like your writing, but no self respecting band is driving to SC without a contract and a deposit, and 1k is a bit low for a private gig. 2k is more like it. Although , if I got to bone the hot lizard Barcelona babe I'd cut my personal take a bit.
Posted by: former sunset kid at April 27, 2006 02:06 PMi duhno but if yer sayin' 2 quarters per month and you don't realize that's a half a month maybe you better slow down buddy ;)
before i quit (about 7 or 8 years ago now) i was smokin' an 1/8th a week easy - or, yes, a 1/2 a month
once i quit i can't even barely take a puff if i wanted to.. just screws with me hardcore - weird how that happens
Posted by: still drink beer tho at April 27, 2006 02:17 PMso your'e saying that an eight a week is a 1/2 a month? how could it be both?
Posted by: math whiz at April 27, 2006 02:21 PMhttp://helpwinthisbet.com/
Posted by: Help Me at April 27, 2006 02:26 PMholy shit someone emailed me that helpwinthisbet link this morning and the counter was at 520k hits, the guy is over 1.3M now.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 03:11 PM
Posted by: NWA fan at April 27, 2006 03:27 PMI beat off 2x a day, average.
who else wants to give their stats?
Posted by: KCLB at April 27, 2006 03:27 PM5x
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 03:34 PMgenerally 1 time a day for me. Sometimes just every other day.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 03:35 PMe, admit it that you are the guy who put up that
http://www.helpwinthisbet.com/ website.
who is the other girl you will choose ?
Posted by: Dr. Bob Kelso at April 27, 2006 03:38 PMApparently the girlfriend has never heard of refresh button.
Posted by: R3W at April 27, 2006 03:47 PMshe should've agreed to "unique visitors"
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 03:49 PMnot hits.
Now dude is gonna get his proverbial cake and eat it too. Good on him.
im gonna go surf 2-3 foot tall waves and have a really good time. i hope.
Posted by: Brian at April 27, 2006 03:51 PMShe is gonna be really surprised (maybe happy, maybe not) when her boyfriend tells her that the 3rd person is gonna be a large guy. ha!!!
Posted by: Perry Cox at April 27, 2006 03:52 PMThat is a picture of my daughter on that website. That little whore.
Posted by: jenn stergstah at April 27, 2006 03:53 PMI just wrote a simple loop script to hit the guys site.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 03:56 PMNotice that there is no picture of the guy.
Posted by: friend #1 at April 27, 2006 04:00 PMi smell hoax
i whack off about 3 times a week lately
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 04:04 PMI'd really like to nail this chick:
Posted by: Perry Cox at April 27, 2006 04:14 PM"Note that if I don't smoke I have lucid dreams."
And that is the nut of it my friend! Pot deprives you of important subconscious activities that take place only during times of level 5 (Delta) REM sleep.
The debate is how important those activities can be. If you delve into it you'll find the scientific and the religious battling it out in this grey zone. Brain activity can be measured but there is little to measure what could potentially be happening in subconscious as we see played out in our dreams.
Are dreams important? Another question open to debate, but I think innately we all know the answer!
-The original Locals believed the sleep time to be more valuable than the waking time.
-Drugs were used at puberty to force the meeting with spirit guides.
-LSD and his friends caused many in a generation to travel to the bitter edge of the meeting between man and the great beyond, sometimes with disastrous results.
I quit the weed after some serious bong time and introspection. I felt a disconnect coming on, my dreams were being robbed from me. Those great ideas, visions, solutions to problems, etc. were vanishing in the pre-dawn light.
The word "dream" is traditionally traced back to an Anglo-Saxon word meaning joy, gladness, or mirth. However, "dream" more likely came from another word (from Sanskrit) meaning deception. A little of both perhaps?
Posted by: a Dr. is in The House at April 27, 2006 04:16 PMOn the whack off question, does posting on this site count?
Posted by: friend #1 at April 27, 2006 04:17 PMe, your not far from the truth today amigo. Crazy shit goes down in the mountains just out side of town.
Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at April 27, 2006 04:21 PMthanks Doc
Posted by: e at April 27, 2006 04:21 PMIs that site thing a hoax then? Either that or a crap load of people are hitting it (or maybe anon DID write a good script).
it seems to be getting about 50 hits a second. So looks like that cow had better get a willing friend around.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 04:29 PMi saw a link to it on craigslist rants and raves this morning.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 04:31 PMI'd love it to be legit - like you said, I see the link on Craigslist - well that is the largest web community, so that's gotta help.
the way it's going he will be at 2M pretty darned soon.
I think he will be down one girlfriend pretty soon.
the only thing that makes me think it is real is that he hasn't put any ads on the site...
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 04:38 PMwhy doesn't e put adds on his site, anon write some script and e get rich?
Posted by: maybe the russians thought of this already at April 27, 2006 04:47 PMi'd do her
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 05:04 PMyes good info doctor
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 05:07 PM
Posted by: The Real Doc at April 27, 2006 05:15 PM1 oz for a 1 1/2 months for me. Its a habit that costs be $300 per oz of primo mendo skunky skunk. I just got the vaporizer and hoping to breathe lighter in my morning paddles.
I am quite motivated, and it is just a part of my life. I do not think there is anything wrong with that. I also give alot away to friends in need who are broke. So I help out the community.
Posted by: mofo at April 27, 2006 05:39 PMOK, so I'm at SFO waiting for a flight, my young daughter asks to go to the bathroom. We enter the stall and I start to pull out one of those seat ring things. As I pull it, a baggy comes flying out with it that's about half full with buds. I don't smoke anymore so I just left it for the next person who probably thought it was a miracle knd of day.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 05:56 PMniiiice
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 06:01 PMamazing how nice and chummy everyone got when the topic turned to weed. even the non-smokers sounded like fans. no name calling, no criticism.
Posted by: fanboy critic at April 27, 2006 06:15 PMall niceness and understanding. a variation on the contact high?
found a bud in a drawer in a dresser in a burr on namotu a few years back... i'm 50 now... it was great!
Posted by: msurfer at April 27, 2006 06:31 PMWeed, the dream snatcher indeed!
Posted by: searoom at April 27, 2006 06:57 PMBut as we all know from the books of Carlos Castenada - each man has his vehicle to the dream world.
http://chronotron.wordpress.com/2006/04/07/why-do-scammers-like-this-always-win/
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 07:41 PM
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 09:00 PMholy repost batman.
we've seen this one before....still a great one.
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 09:44 PMYeah but this guy has no links to other sites so how is he making money?
Clearly it's a re hash of this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/06/website_challenge/
Posted by: at April 27, 2006 10:10 PMwith the URL changed slightly. But where is he making money without any links?