The Q&A Hole: Why Isn't LSD Legal?

Trip on this with Lana Lesley, Denise Prince, Mickle Maher, and more.

"...WHY ISN’T LSD LEGAL?..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

LSD C&W

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne's got a thing about Austin

"...best represented by the title of his 1987 album, LSD C&W...."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Disneyland on LSD With A Giant Dog

Tripping in the “Happiest Place on Earth”

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

X Games: Flaming Lips Hit the LSD

Okie freaks deliver crowd-pleasing set Sunday

June 9, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle

With this novel about Timothy Leary and LSD in the early Sixties, T.C. Boyle has written a mighty book – and a gift

"...be written on the flea." T.C. Boyle has chosen LSD in the early 1960s as his theme and written..."

April 12, 2019 Arts Review by David Gaines

No No: A Dockumentary

Famous for pitching a no-hitter while high on acid, Dock Ellis the man was so much more.

"...the Major League. Greenies, bennies, rivers of vodka, and LSD tabs crushed and snorted: It was all part of..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Belladonna of Sadness

This transgressive animated film from 1973 Japan has been recently restored. Blending gorgeous, watercolor-infused Japanese landscapes with Western influences like Art Nouveau and Expressionism, the film tells the sexually outré and hallucinogenic story of two lovers in a feudal village.

"...But for those up for an adventure into the LSD-influenced world of counterculture animation, Belladonna of Sadness is a..."

May 13, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Acid-Laced Sun Kisses

Hippies, LSD, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in Orange Sunshine

"...the Orange Crush-colored tabs of the near-mythical strain of LSD at the hallucinogenic heart of William Kirkley's documentary is..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Death at a Funeral

A remake of a 3-year-old British comedy, Death at a Funeral transfers its farce from a predominantly white cast to predominantly black.

"...a funeral gone cataclysmically wrong (featuring blackmail, an accidental LSD dosing, and a dead body, for starters). Working with..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Push

This sci-fi actioner about warring clairvoyants is generically incomprehensible with cyberpunk overtones.

"...(or Bryan Singer's) guiding hand. It also sports a triple-espresso-and-LSD-laced storyline that I'm pretty sure breaks at least one..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

Uwe Boll, the Timex watch of contemporary filmmakers (he takes a licking but keeps on ticking), strikes again.

"...inscrutable (Burt Reynolds?!) you'll be wondering who slipped the LSD in your Coke, cheesily bad CGI effects, and enough..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

"...Leary to turn on and tune in with psilocybin, LSD, and assorted other consciousness-raisers. But instead of dropping out,..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Drink Your Blood

"...classic about vicious hippies who douse the locals with LSD. In revenge, the townsfolk fed them rabid meat pies,..."

Sept. 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SLC Punk!

"...balls-to-the-wall direction, a stuttering mélange of wild angles, slo-mo, LSD-inspired dream sequences, spotty in-camera edits, and scene after scene..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dream With the Fishes

"...way, their picaresque adventures include nude bowling, flights of LSD abandon (including an inadvertently dosed cop who exerts deadly..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: 'No No: A Dockumentary'

Riveting doc drops acid, racial tension, and an MLB All-Star

"...Come for the LSD, sure – but stay for a riveting lens on..."

March 12, 2014 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Jammin'

Jerry Garcia, bluegrass, and third generation jam -- thriving in Austin and beyond.

"...growing steadily, kicked in like your first dose of LSD...."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Where the Pyramid Meets the High

Long lost 13th Floor Elevators founder and visionary Tommy Hall – found!

"...and human enlightenment, which includes a weekly dose of LSD. – Margaret MoserAustin Chronicle: The 13th Floor Elevators are..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Joe Trybyszewski

Scanlines

"...anachronistic coda to the fine old tradition of the LSD movie. I guess it failed because it came out..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Screens Feature

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...Who designed that? What a brilliant idea! And, on LSD, I began to think of everything as an idea..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...bathtub operations in numbers unheard of since hippies discovered LSD. For them, it leveled emotional walls, created a deep,..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

No No? Oh Yes.

Dock Ellis' historic trip to a no-hitter

"...Is LSD a performance-enhancing drug? Maybe for a musician, but you..."

July 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Mark Fagan

Woo, All Right Now, And Don't It Feel Like You're Going Bald and Homicidal!

Thirty years later, Jeff Lieberman is still walking on 'Blue Sunshine'

"...mid-Seventies, it posits a paranoid world where all that LSD mom and dad dropped at Haight-Ashbury while keeping the..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...High"]. "Everything I wrote was inspired through my taking LSD."..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Heaven & Hell in 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History

We return to the Red River strip of March 1966 to witness Roky Erickson and crew

"..."Roller Coaster" takes you through the LSD experience. It begins slowly. The musicians are fighting to..."

May 15, 2020 Music Feature by Jon Savage

The Luv Doc: People in Glass Houses

A truly balls-out commitment to mental health

"...seemed to have some major therapeutic breakthroughs while undergoing LSD therapy back in the late Fifties. He is reputed..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...so attracted Charlene to her husband brought Tommy to LSD's doorstep...."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Austin Chronic: SXSW Is High on Psychedelics, as Cannabis Programming Wanes

Conference programming manager Adam Wode explains why South by Southwest is turning on to psychoactive substances

"...not talking about artificial intelligence, but rather magic mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, and ketamine...."

Jan. 5, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

Bio-doc of the psych rock pioneer leaves his later obscurity suitably untouched

"...that he founded Pink Floyd, lost his mind to LSD-induced psychosis, and disappeared into a deliberate and determined obscurity...."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's Recalls the Moment Her Band Topped the Charts in 1981

Austin born and raised, Valentine and the girls reigned with Beauty & the Beat – as excerpted from her new memoir All I Ever Wanted

"...and decided it would be fun to take some LSD...."

April 17, 2020 Music Feature by Kathy Valentine

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