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THE FILTH is one of the best things I ever saw of his, and I like best that, at the end, it's actually about compassion rather than rebellion. It seems like treatment he was giving himself.

As for NO HERO--yeah, I remember that. But Ellis is really talking about something quite different, though the effects of the stuff they use COULD be compared to really, really bad LSD. More like DMT or something mean like that, though. Opium(which I've never touched, nor anything derived from it except maybe codeine in over-the-counter medicines) in fact, seems to me, would not make you confront or understand anything so much as become comfy with it. One of the reasons it's a bad thing to do.

I have a friend who, living in Hollywood around the time River Phoenix died, smoked smack for a while--thinking it was safer that way(yeah, that really worked for River--and by the way, their fad their for it was AFTER he died, which is an example of why LA is a fucked-up place), to my horror when I visited him when I first moved to CA(northern. You couldn't pay me to live in LA). I remember joining him as he house-sat for the costume designer of CARRIE one weekend. It was a beautiful view up there, in the Hollywood Hills. He had some acid and I did it and it was nice. But he did THAT and tried to get me to, which I would not and I asked him not to, at least not with me around. I enjoyed that day overall, at least by myself. He just nodded out. I spent the rest of the day going through the house comic collection, reading RUINS and STARMAN for the first time.

Fortunately he stopped successfully a few months later after I'd made it clear I thought it was turning him into a creep. It made me sad at the time though.