Lux
5 questions to Howard Marks

"People complain that music is so ambiguous that it always leaves them in doubt about what to think, even though the words can be understood by anyone" (Felix Mendelssohn – Thoughts on Music and Drugs).

1. Nice one for you, dude, I really dig this story about music on roller coasters...
   
   
2. The truth is that music and drugs are the medicine of the mind, no culture has ever lived a lack of music and every culture has had its psychoactive sacraments: humans used drugs, danced, and sang for thousands of years before they could speak.
   
   
3. What a laugh...
   
   
4. During the second millennium, popular music and drugs changed the world together: rockers (like the Beatles) swallowed amphetamine, the love-freaks of the sixties absorbed LSD, punks sniffed glue, house devotees in the '80s took MDMA, and the funk folks still mess around with ketamine. But every change was accompanied by an increase in marijuana use, consequently the most inspired, innovative, and enjoyable music of the last century was created by smokers.
   
   
5. Respect to the stoners, dude... you truly seem... I don't know who you remind me of but not my uncle.
   
   
6. When I get high, time slows down, in other words, my thoughts speed up, musical details pass by with much more pleasurable calm, allowing me to appreciate details and delights that would otherwise go unheard. When I'm high, my memory is quickly restored, indicating that what happened wasn't short-term memory loss, or brain structure damage, but rather a different use of it.
   
   
7. Look at this dude...
   
   
8. When the virtuoso of the instrument abandons calculated intentions, the result is never nonsense but often his most brilliant creations. Forgetfulness is the germ catalyst of spontaneous creativity.
   
   
9. What a laugh, dude... I didn't understand anything, nice for you, respect. And nice for the roller coasters. But now tell me something about the album... what a laugh is it, what kind of music is it, I don't even know what sounds... but at least does it play? Do you hear the sea... the bells, the skies filled with clouds and quails, the tundra, distant voices... didn't get it, dude, but why are the voices always distant? And why are the mountains Russian?
   
   
10. The fact is people smoked before dancing and danced before walking. Music and drugs are the archetypical instrument of communication.
    
    
    
    Howard Marks