http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/ I like to write. Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/comment-page-1/#comment-941 celticpaladin Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:27:59 +0000 http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/#comment-941 <p>I disagree. There's plenty of art out there that is not directly drug related. 'Sides, a lot of successful artists get into the abuse for one of two reasons: fun (which I tack onto the availablity that comes from fame/fortune) and as an escape/release from their problems or emotional traumas (which often times is also why they create the art in the first place).</p> <p>Of of the top of my head, in no particular order, Glen Miller, Gene Kelly, Gene Simmons, Michelangelo, Eric Clapton and Michael Macdonald both swore off drugs and made some great music after, Lerner and Lowe, Rogers and Hammerstein, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and Maya Angelou. There's plenty more, but I need sleep.</p> I disagree. There’s plenty of art out there that is not directly drug related. ‘Sides, a lot of successful artists get into the abuse for one of two reasons: fun (which I tack onto the availablity that comes from fame/fortune) and as an escape/release from their problems or emotional traumas (which often times is also why they create the art in the first place).
Of of the top of my head, in no particular order, Glen Miller, Gene Kelly, Gene Simmons, Michelangelo, Eric Clapton and Michael Macdonald both swore off drugs and made some great music after, Lerner and Lowe, Rogers and Hammerstein, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and Maya Angelou. There’s plenty more, but I need sleep.

]]> http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/comment-page-1/#comment-940 propheceye Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:35:31 +0000 http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/#comment-940 <p>You have to remember that correlation does not imply causation. Perhaps people do drugs because they have a crappy life instead of the other way around? Perhaps there is a third variable that is cause for both drug usage and a crappy life?</p> <p>Also, after Santa Cruz, I can say that drugs and crappy lives do not always correlate. There are also plenty of happy responsible drug users and plenty of drug free people with crappy self-destructive lives...</p> <p>The point is, the idea that drugs usually equals messing up your life is just anti-drug commercial scare tactics. The truth, as with most things, is a bit more complicated.</p> <p>And yes, the art is worth it.</p> You have to remember that correlation does not imply causation. Perhaps people do drugs because they have a crappy life instead of the other way around? Perhaps there is a third variable that is cause for both drug usage and a crappy life?
Also, after Santa Cruz, I can say that drugs and crappy lives do not always correlate. There are also plenty of happy responsible drug users and plenty of drug free people with crappy self-destructive lives…
The point is, the idea that drugs usually equals messing up your life is just anti-drug commercial scare tactics. The truth, as with most things, is a bit more complicated.
And yes, the art is worth it.

]]> http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/comment-page-1/#comment-939 sarahmadson Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:53:41 +0000 http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/#comment-939 <p>I do understand that in an 'artistic' sense, drugs have done good...but does that 'good' outweight the harm that it does? </p> <p>I suppose that's my real question. Is drug-enduced art worth the crappy life that often comes with it?</p> I do understand that in an ‘artistic’ sense, drugs have done good…but does that ‘good’ outweight the harm that it does?
I suppose that’s my real question. Is drug-enduced art worth the crappy life that often comes with it?

]]> http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/comment-page-1/#comment-938 propheceye Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:12:54 +0000 http://sarahmadson.com/2007/09/1417/#comment-938 <p>"See, I think drugs have done some *good* things for us, I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a Favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cd’s and burn em’. 'Cause you know what? The musicians who’ve made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years... Rrrrrrrrrrrrreal fuckin' high on drugs."<br /> --<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks" rel="nofollow">Bill Hicks</a></p> <p>I guess it's funnier when you hear the audio clip...</p> “See, I think drugs have done some *good* things for us, I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a Favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cd’s and burn em’. ‘Cause you know what? The musicians who’ve made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years… Rrrrrrrrrrrrreal fuckin’ high on drugs.”
–Bill Hicks
I guess it’s funnier when you hear the audio clip…

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