Robert Hunter Journal update, 1/21-23/03
Michael Z.
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1.21.03
Continue to feel so dyspeptic during these drizzly foggy January
days. Drive myself to get a little worktime in on guitar but the
sizzling over-abundance of creative energy good to produce new songs is
lacking. Rarely any sense in pushing it. Maybe it's partly because my
family has been away for four days, returning today, and I've been
living on rice and gingersnaps. I love gingersnaps!
Heard MLK on KPFA yesterday, the speech about the Montgomery bus
strike, and was knocked over, as I am annually, by the measured tone
and wisdom of this surely saintly man. That we have his voice on tape,
well recorded, is almost unbelievable. Words are words but when they're
said right they become ideas and cannot be glossed over as easily as
they can in print.
I had a deeply religious aunt, dear woman, who once read my lyric
book and commented: "it's beautifully written, but what's the point?
What are you trying to tell people?" All I could answer was: "I wonder
myself, sometimes." I guess her point was that, since it was not a call
to churchliness as she understood it, it simply didn't signify. I
didn't pursue the conversation. Didn't seem much point. Nor did I think
less of her for her Indiana plainspokenness. I've always believed that
the creative act is its own excuse, but that may be an inexcusably
secular view. Received an email today asking if Ripple was a
"spiritual". I replied "Without question." Nevertheless, certain
comments, innocently rendered, can dig in and asserts themselves when
energies are low.
Tour looming. Probably what I need. Keeps me motivated to progress
even when I'd almost rather curl up and just read the wet season away.
Guess I'll have more coffee and a couple of gingersnaps and get to it.
1.23.03
Jerry once said that the Grateful Dead is like licorice: "Some people
don't care for licorice, but those who do like it a lot." I've always
liked licorice. Listening to a medical program, I learned that a
substance called cortisol is necessary for the utilization of
adrenalin. Regardless of how much your adrenals produce, without
sufficient cortisol it doesn't get used properly, so you feel fatigued.
Licorice was suggested as a substance that might allow you to
metabolize adrenalin better. Could a craving for licorice be related to
a need for more cortisol? Probably don't have my facts exactly straight
here.
I've been asked about my participation in the MK-Ultra experiments in
the 60's. All they did was check out my susceptibility to hypnotism
before administering various psychedelics. Then they tried to hypnotize
me on LSD, Psylocybin and Mescaline, then on all three at once, in
tests spaced a week apart. I didn't respond much to it straight or
dosed. The hypno-induction process just seemed more ridiculous under
mind expansion. What did happen was that I got psychedelicised with
strong grade A doses of mind expanding substances several years before
they were available to my contemporaries. For two years, until LSD
appeared on the street in various degrees of purity, I was the only
person I knew who'd had the experience. I lived in a world where even
my "hip" friends were comparatively straight.
It was hard to tell about it. No mutual frame of reference. When I
returned from the first experiment, I tried to explain to jazz drummer
Dan Barnett (the first person I met upon returning home to the Chateau)
about what had happened. He listened with a smile and then pronounced
"You're crazy, Bob Hunter!" Many years later, Jerry ran into Dan and
invited him over to the house to hear the acetate of our new record. He
sat through "American Beauty" with a smile on his face, and when it was
over asked: "Do you call this music?!" Some people never will care for
licorice.
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-------------------Michael Zelner---
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polasus
ARE WE SURE THIS IS HUNTER AND NOT BOOIE?
Olompali4
>
>ARE WE SURE THIS IS HUNTER AND NOT BOOIE?
>
LOL!!!
scottyc
> > Here are the latest entries in Robert Hunter's online journal
> >
> >ARE WE SURE THIS IS HUNTER AND NOT BOOIE?
> >
>
> LOL!!!
I knew Booie, and that's not Booie.
Eric Beermann
explain why there are those who do and those who don't dig the
Grateful Dead.
RE: Licorice as it relates to the adrenal system, I've been told by my
doc (holistic) that it is a good source of "energy" which doesn't
necessarily stress the adrenal system (vs. pure sugar). Of course,
Twizzlers is probably loaded with sugar and other crap, but you can
find pure licorice root at most health food stores ... and Panda Bars
are pretty good too if you're after a packaged sweet product.
I believe there is a condition known as "adrenal fatigue" which can
result by ingesting too much sugar/simle carbs, caffeine, and I think
over-exertion as well. This affects me in so far as adding to my
condition of hypothyroidism. Apparently, a stressed adrenal system
can affect the endocrine system (thyroid) in adverse ways. My biggest
complaint is fatigue - even though my bloodwork is within range. I'm
told this fatigue is kind of a "payback" for stressing my adrenal
system.
Take it for what it's worth ... as I'm not a doctor.
eric
"Michael Z." <mich...@email.in.sig> wrote in message news:<270120031547249554%mich...@email.in.sig>...
> Here are the latest entries in Robert Hunter's online journal, posted
> to the newsgroup as a service to the last 3.029 Deadheads on Usenet
> without Web access.
>
> Web-enabled folks can find this at:
>
> <http://dead.net> => Hunter Archive button => Journal
>
> Unfortunately, he's removed all the old (pre-2002) journal entries from
> the site (but you can still find them through a Google Groups search).
>
> <http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search>
> (search rmgd for the exact phrase, "Robert Hunter Journal Update")
>
> MZ
>
>
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> 1.23.03
> Jerry once said that the Grateful Dead is like licorice: "Some people
> don't care for licorice, but those who do like it a lot." I've always
> liked licorice. Listening to a medical program, I learned that a
> substance called cortisol is necessary for the utilization of
> adrenalin. Regardless of how much your adrenals produce, without
> sufficient cortisol it doesn't get used properly, so you feel fatigued.
> Licorice was suggested as a substance that might allow you to
> metabolize adrenalin better. Could a craving for licorice be related to
> a need for more cortisol? Probably don't have my facts exactly straight
> here.
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