<div class="quote_poster">The Walrus Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">A+ Great song
Woah Nitrous?? I didn't even know you could trip on that. Like what is it in drug form? I've only seen it at dragstrips in peoples cars and ****. lol I'm a drug noob</div>
Yeah, it's different than the automotive nitrous though, in that automotive nitrous isn't pure. What they use is 10% sulphuric compounds, which will poison you if you inhale enough of it. For that reason, most people do the nitrous that you buy at headshops (because it's pure), and if they don't buy a canister for it, they'll use it out of balloons. That's how most people do it at concerts, where it's the most common.
I don't condone it, because it's incredibly dangerous. Out of all the drugs out there, it's one of the most unassuming. You never hear about it, and it makes you feel so euphoric while you're on it, that you don't worry about testing your limits, and that makes you prone to brain damage or death. I know a lot of people who have died or been seriously injured by nitrous, three from lack of oxygen and two from trying to drive on it, like one of my friends from high school, D'Bo. I even got in a crash while on it myself (although it was just a fender bender), and worse, I think I have permanent brain damage from it. It's not a safe drug, not in the least. However, with that said, when you combine it with certain drugs (which I won't list for self incrimination reasons), it can be amazingly euphoric. Combinations will take the thirty second trip that nitrous would have given you straight up and elongates it, while making it more intense. Everything in the world seems perfect, you hallucinate, you hear sounds differently, and you feel happier and more fulfilled than ever in your life. Then, a few minutes later (or a few hours later depending on what else you took), you come down, and it's a harsh come down that leads most people to keep doing more and more.
That's why I don't recommend trying it, even once. I know you'll be offered it too, with the way you love music. The first time I tried it was at a show, and almost every show I've been to since, there's usually people doing nitrous. The health risks and addiction potential are too high for me to suggest using it though. I wish I had never touched it, personally.
I was on YouTube, and did a search for it. Here's a video of some tools doing it through balloons: (most people I know usually do it out of a cannister when they're just doing it recreationally though).
The whole reason I brought it up was that I always thought "Today" went well with it, and when the video came on the other day, all my friends agreed with me. I know it's not really about that, but it still fits well. Look at the lyrics:
Today is the greatest
Day I've ever kown
Can't live for tomorrow
Tomorrow’s much too long
I burn my eyes out
Before I get out
I wanted more
Than life could ever grant
Bored by the chore
Of saving face
That's how I've always seen a nitrous high - a euphoric peak in your life that can never be reached again. When you're in the moment though, all you want to do is live in that moment and try to ride it out as long as possible. After that experience, you become jaded and the simple highs in life don't hit yo uthe way they used to. You're 'bored by the chore of saving face.'
I know that may seem like a stretch, but the video went well with it too, with the carefree attitude Corgan had in it along with the fuzzy/colorful way in which it was shot.
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros - D
Not that it wasn't funny, because there were a lot of clever lines, but I just hate most mixes of humor and music. Music effects me on a deep, almost spiritual level, and comedy effects me on a more shallow level. I'm having trouble finding the right words to describe what I mean, but it's sort of like mixing sex with food. They're both great in their own right, but they're both diminished when you try to mix them.
New Song:
Speaking of great things that don't go together, this video doesn't go with the song at all, at least in my mind. It's a bunch of fight videos, which are cool in their own right, but I personally just put this on in the background and listen to the music. It was the only version of it on YouTube. This is actually a serious song though, and Mayfield was a serious musician, to say the least. He influenced most of the great classic rock artists of the late 60's/early 70's and was Jimi Hendrix's favorite musician from the time he was a kid until his own death. There's a lot of similarities in Curtis Mayfield's early works and the work Hendrix did with the Hendrix Experience.
Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin' Wild (1972)
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Sorry for the long post.
